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Uruk basalt cylinder seal with quadrupeds

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An image of Cylinder Seal. Squat black cylinder seal with deeply cut, long-necked quadrupeds. Some string wear on the perforation showing that this seal was worn as a bead for a long period of time. Basalt, height 0.016 m, width 0.015 m, circa 3100-2900 B.C. Uruk Period (4100-2900 BCE). Ancient Mesopotamia.

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Cylinder Seal. Squat black cylinder seal with deeply cut, long-necked quadrupeds. Some string wear on the perforation showing that this seal was worn as a bead for a long period of time. Basalt, height 0.016 m, width 0.015 m, circa 3100-2900 B.C. Uruk Period (4100-2900 BCE). Ancient Mesopotamia.

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  • Accession Number: ANE.12.2005
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/25.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 683 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 99.05kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 25/1
  • Captured: 2009:03:25 14:31:40

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ancient animals antiquity basalt BC cylinder seal Fitz_ANT Mesopotamian quadrupeds seal Uruk Period

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rgb(226,227,227), rgb(71,62,51), rgb(119,104,88), rgb(131,120,103), rgb(146,139,128), rgb(176,159,141), rgb(190,177,157), rgb(105,107,108), rgb(184,181,177), rgb(108,116,109), rgb(199,186,177)

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