Cylinder Seal with a Winged Bull

14th-13th century BCE (Middle Assyrian)

1.3 cm 3 cm

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During the Middle Assyrian period, the art of the cylinder seal increased in naturalism, movement, and sculptural quality. This seal exemplifies these trends as a winged bull alights dramatically, one foreleg folding under the body and one hind leg kicking upward. Cylinder sea...

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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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