Cylinder Seal with Figures

2nd-mid 1st millennium BCE H: 3/8 in. (1 cm) Citation

This seal depicts several figures and is probably unfinished. 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, and they could act as official identifiers...

Artifact

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39377
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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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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.630

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