Cylinder Seal with Deities

20th-17th century BCE (Old Babylonian/Isin Larsa)

1 cm 1.8 cm

Citation

This seal includes a standing deity holding a staff, a goddess facing forward, and a leaping figure. A star also decorates the scene. Cylinder seals are cylindrical objects carved in reverse (intaglio) in order to leave raised impressions when rolled into clay. Seals were gene...

Artifact

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9040
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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/42.648

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