Cylinder Seal with a Worshipper and an Inscription

ca. 1000-539 BCE (Neo-Babylonian)

1.6 cm 3.5 cm

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The scene on this cylinder seal depicts a standing figure in long robe, with a star in the field behind him and a standing altar with a winged disk of Assur above it, as well as an inverted crescent. The scene is completed by a two-line cuneiform inscription. Cylinder seals ar...

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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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