Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

ca. 2334-2193 BCE (Akkadian) H: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm) Citation

This contest scene includes two standing men wearing round helmets, each fighting a rearing lion. A palm tree decorates the space between the two contest scenes. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolle...

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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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