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modern impression

bibliography and image source: Frankfort, Henri: Stratified Cylinder Seals from the Diyala Region. Oriental Institute Publications 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, no. 622.

• museum number: IM15621

• excavation number: As. 32:599

• provenience: Tell Asmar

• dimension(s) (in cm):
3.6 x 2

• material: shell

• date: Akkadian (ca. 2300 - 2200 BC)

• description:
Long-haired girdled bull-man subduing ibex; flat-capped nude bearded man subduing human-headed bull; lion struggling with another human-headed bull; plant and eight-pointed star in field.

• status: feared to be stolen

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