Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

ca. 2600-2334 BCE (Early Dynastic III) Citation Source image

This contest scene depicts a bull creature in a "Master of Animals" pose, holding a deer and possibly another bull. Figures and lions also participate in the fight. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when ro...

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22684
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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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