Mesopotamian cylinder seal
The image on this seal shows a kneeling hero clasping the foreleg of a horned animal with his left hand, and holding its muzzle in his right. There is a star above the group.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 86/1966/S11
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Material
- carnelian
- Common Name
- Mesopotamian cylinder seal
- Simple Name
- seal
- Period Classification
- Middle Assyro-Babylonian - 1150-750 BC
- Production Year Low
- -934
- Production Year High
- -608
