Cylinder Seal with a Galloping Bull

ca. 1000-539 BCE (Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian)

1.1 cm 2 cm

Citation

This seal depicts a galloping bull and is also decorated with emblems, a scorpion, a rhomb, and a star. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were generally used to mark ownership,...

Artifact

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36111
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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/42.815