Cylinder Seal with a Row of Horned Quadrupeds

late 4th-early 3rd millennium BCE (Late Uruk-Jamdet Nasr) H: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm) Citation

This early cylinder seal bears two stylized horned quadrupeds running in a row. These creatures possibly represent a sacred herd, animals raised at a temple for sacrifice. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions...

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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/42.636

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