Cylinder Seal with a Presentation Scene and a Figure Holding a Fish

first half 1st millennium BCE (Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian)

1.1 cm 1.6 cm 1.1 cm

Citation

This seal features a seated goddess holding a chaplet ring. She is greeted by a standing figure with their arms up, possibly an interceding deity. Another bearded figure stands, one foot on a stool, in a "Master of Animals" pose, holding in each hand a large fish by the tail....

Artifact

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15650
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.491