Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene and an Inscription
This seal depicts a bearded hero vanquishing a rearing bull. The hero holds a mace in one hand and the foreleg of the bull in the other. Two columns of cuneiform text are incorporated into the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order...
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31646
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object
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normalized
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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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CC0
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en
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0
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.791 |
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