Cylinder Seal with a Cultic Scene

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

1.4 cm 2.9 cm

Citation

This scene depicts a worshipper at an altar with a winged sun disc. Emblems, a fish, star, and rhomb are also included in the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were gener...

Artifact

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34436
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object
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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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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.719

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