Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

ca. 2334-2193 BCE (Akkadian) H: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm) Citation

This contest scene includes two rearing lions, each attacking a bull. A standing human figure holds the forelegs of one of the bulls, joining the fray. A much smaller human figure stands next to the fighting man below two horizontal register lines. Cylinder seals are cylindric...

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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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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.588

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