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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.
Length: 0.032 m
Width: 0.021 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1952) by Menasce, G. D.
Sargonid
Akkadian
Circa
-2400
-
-2200
dark green Serpentine
Accession number: ANE.1.1952
Primary reference Number: 88936
Oldadmincategory: O
Oldobjectnumber: WAE.1.1952
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cylinder seal" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/88936 Accessed: 2024-11-02 21:30:44
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 21:30:44|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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