Cylinder Seal with a Contest Scene

ca. 911-612 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

1.3 cm 2.9 cm

Citation

This scene depicts a hero in a "Master of Animals" pose. He fights human headed winged-bulls, grasping one in each hand. A rhomb and crescent also decorate the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when...

Artifact

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6186
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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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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.711

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