Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene

ca. 1350-1100 BCE or modern (Middle Assyrian or modern)

1.6 cm 3.5 cm 1.7 cm

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This seal depicts a deity seated below a winged sun disc receiving offerings from a procession of two standing figures. The style of the figures and the shape of the sun disc suggest this seal might not be authentic. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (in...

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23681
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.449

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