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Cylinder seal decorated with a contest scene showing a minor divinity grasping a human-headed bull by the foreleg. On one side a king and another human figure overpower a lion. Another vignette shows a rampant lion attacking a bull. An axe and an eight-pointed star appear in the field. Serpentine, dark green, length 0.032 m, width 0.021 m, c. 2400-2200 BC. Sargonid, Akkadian.
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