Cylinder Seal with Figures, Animals, and an Inscription

20th-14th century BCE (Old Syrian or Mitannian)

1.3 cm 2.6 cm

Citation

This interesting seal most likely originates from northern Syria, but also exhibits evidence of later recarving. The imagery includes a worshipper standing, arms raised in front of three lines of text that name the god Assur. On the other side of the worshipper, in an auxiliar...

Artifact

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16216
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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