Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene

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

1 cm 2.1 cm

Citation

This seal's imagery includes a king with a mace standing before a deity who has his hands raised. The stand on either side of a staff or altar. A suppliant goddess much smaller in scale hovers in the space between the two larger figures' heads. Cylinder seals are cylindrical o...

कलाकृति/वस्तु

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30304
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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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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.637

Terms

संस्कृति
Babylonian
माध्यम
hematite
विधा
cylinder seals

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