Cylinder seal
This cylinder seal is engraved with a contest scene showing a winged genie grasping the leg of a winged human-headed bull. The genie wears a kilt with a fringed mantle over the top. The winged bull wears a hat. Also in the scene are gazelles and a cactus. Cylinder seals were used to authenticate clay tablet documents or containers of produce, and probably belonged to a single owner.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/412
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Material
- chalcedony
- Common Name
- cylinder seal
- Simple Name
- seal
- Production Year Low
- -799
- Production Year High
- -600
