Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene

first half 1st millennium BCE (Neo-Elamite)

1.5 cm 3.5 cm

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This seal illustrates a scene with the goddess Ishtar welcoming a devotee. A cuneiform inscription is incorporated into the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were general...

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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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