Cylinder Seal with an Archer Hunting a Winged Bull

ca. 1000-539 BCE (Neo-Babylonian)

12 cm 3.9 cm 1.6 cm

Citation

This seal features a kneeling bow hunter about to release an arrow at a rearing winged bull. The stylized cut drill marks are characteristic of Neo-Babylonian seals. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when r...

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36665
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Dr. and Mrs. E. Kirkbride Miller, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1971, by gift.
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1465

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