Cylinder Seal with Adad Standing on a Bull and Animals

20th-15th century BCE (Mitannian)

1 cm 2.8 cm

Citation

This seal depicts the storm god Adad holding a lightning stick and standing on the back of a bull. Two rearing griffins flank a stylized rosette tree. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay...

कलाकृति/वस्तु

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2773
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object
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normalized
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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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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.823

Terms

संस्कृति
Mitannian
माध्यम
hematite
विधा
cylinder seals

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