Cylinder Seal with Figures and Goats

20th-17th century BCE (Old Syrian)

1.3 cm 2.5 cm

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Syrian seals have a diverse range of imagery drawn from Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. This scene depicts two standing figures flanking an inverted figure and an inverted crescent. One of the standing figures is holding the inverted individual by the leg. In a subsid...

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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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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.585

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