Cylinder Seal with Animals

13th century BCE (Late Cypriot)

1 cm 2 cm

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Cyprus produced cylinder seals only during the late 2nd millennium BCE. These seals combine Syrian and Mesopotamian imagery in a uniquely Cypriot fashion. On this example, the stylized animals include a griffin with an open beak, a donkey, and an ibex. Cylinder seals are cylin...

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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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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.825

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