Cylinder Seal with a Cultic Scene

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian) Diam: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm) Citation Source image

This seal's imagery includes a deity surrounded by a nimbus of stars, probably Ishtar, a worshipper, and human-headed scorpion figure. A rhomb, crescent, and a standard also decorate the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to lea...

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1817
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object
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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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CC0
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en
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1
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संस्कृति
Neo-Assyrian
माध्यम
chalcedony
विधा
cylinder seals

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