Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene and an Inscription

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian) Citation Source image

This seal depicts a cultic scene. A deity, possibly Ishtar, holds a chaplet and sits on a throne with her feet on the back of an animal, possibly a lion. Two other figures stand, each with one arm raised, facing the seated deity. The first deity holds his hand up to a bird, an...

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30702
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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en
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