Cylinder Seal with Standing Men and Animals

14th-mid 12th century BCE (Late Cypriot)

1 cm 2.2 cm 1 cm

Citation

Cyprus produced cylinder seals only during the late 2nd millennium BCE. These seals combine Syrian and Mesopotamian imagery in a uniquely Cypriot fashion. This scene includes standing figures and several quadrupeds in motion. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in re...

Artifact

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20907
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object
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.421

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