Cylinder Seal with Horned Animals before a Temple

late 4th-early 3rd millennium BCE (Late Uruk-Jamdet Nasr)

2.9 cm 3.6 cm

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Two horned quadrupeds stand before a temple façade decorated with geometric patterns. They may represent a sacred herd, animals raised at the temple for sacrifice. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rol...

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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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संस्कृति
Sumerian
माध्यम
carved white stone
विधा
cylinder seals

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