Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

1.3 cm 2.5 cm

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This piece illustrates a winged deity in the "Master of Animals" pose. He holds a mythical and rearing bird creature in each hand. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were general...

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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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