Cylinder Seal with Standing Warriors

ca. 2000-1750 BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

0.9 cm 2 cm

Citation

This seal is inscribed with two standing elongated figures. The figure's bodies and faces and their rounded hats suggest this seal dates to the Isin-Larsa or Old Babylonian Period. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised imp...

Artifact

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20919
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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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