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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. 273.

• museum number: IM14686

• excavation number: Kh. I 360

• provenience: Khafaje

• dimension(s) (in cm):
2.6 x 1.7

• material: white limestone

• date: Early Dynastic IIIa (ca. 2500 - 2400 BC)

• description:
Nude curly-locked figure holding with right hand bull crossing gazelle and with left hand lion crossing goat, which is attacked by lion crossing bull; small goat underneath elbow of figure.

• status: feared to be stolen

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