Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

late 3rd millennium BCE (Post-Akkadian or Neo-Sumerian)

1.2 cm 2.7 cm

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This seal depicts two heroes, one fighting a rearing lion and the other fighting a rearing griffin. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were generally used to mark ownership, and...

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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, 1942, by purchase.
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en
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संस्कृति
Post-Akkadian or Neo-Sumerian
माध्यम
lapis lazuli
विधा
cylinder seals

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