Cylinder Seal with a Hunting Scene and an Inscription

late 16th-mid 12th century BCE (Middle Babylonian)

1 cm 2 cm

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The Kassites were a people from the northwest who installed themselves as the rulers of southern Mesopotamia, unified under the name of Babylonia. They adopted much of its culture, including the cylinder seal. This seal features a hunter and two deer. Cylinder seals are cylind...

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5722
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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/42.799

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