Cylinder Seal with a Hero Kneeling Between Winged Horses

ca. 1000-539 BCE (Neo-Babylonian) H: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) Citation

This cylinder seal depicts a hero, resting upon one knee, flanked by winged horses standing on their hind legs. The figure is depicted in a "Master of Animals" pose, holding each horse. The scene also includes a winged sun disc, crescent, a six-pointed star, circular drill mar...

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38705
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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