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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
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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