Cylinder Seal with a Row of Horned Quadrupeds

31st-30th century BCE (Late Uruk-Jamdet Nasr) Diam: 3/8 in. (1 cm) Citation Source image

This early cylinder seal bears three stylized horned quadrupeds, perhaps representing a sacred herd. 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...

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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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