Cylinder Seal with Standing Figures and Inverted Ibexes

14th-mid 12th century BCE (Late Cypriot)

0.7 cm 1.7 cm

Citation

Cyprus produced cylinder seals only during the late 2nd millennium BCE. These seals combine Syrian and Mesopotamian imagery in a uniquely Cypriot fashion. This seal depicts standing human figures with alternating inverted ibexes. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved i...

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9774
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object
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normalized
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.422

Terms

संस्कृति
Cypriot
माध्यम
hematite
विधा
cylinder seals

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