Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene and an Inscription

20th-19th century BCE (early Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

1.1 cm 2.1 cm

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The scene on this seal comprises two parts. The first depicts a bull-man battling a lion; the second shows a nude hero battling an inverted bull. There is a cuneiform inscription in two registers featuring the names of Shamash (Utu), the sun god, and his wife Aya. A small bow-...

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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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