Cylinder Seal with Standing Figures and an Inscription

20th-17th century BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

0.8 cm 2.3 cm

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The scene on this seal depicts two addorsed, standing figures in long tufted robes, with hands raised in a posture of supplication. The scene also includes three registers of cuneiform inscription. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to...

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1220
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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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en
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Babylonian
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