Cylinder Seal with Nude Goddesses and a Goat

14th-mid 12th century BCE (Late Cypriot)

1.2 cm 2.5 cm

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Cyprus produced cylinder seals only during the late 2nd millennium BCE. These seals combine Syrian and Mesopotamian imagery in a uniquely Cypriot fashion. This seal shows two nude female figures squatting on stools with their legs spread and bent, perhaps in childbirth. Each h...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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