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CYLINDER SEAL showing group of two male figures wearing skirts and headscarfs, subduing two water buffaloes (one rampant, one inverted)
 
material:
shell
provenience:
Tell Asmar, Houses IVa
date:
Akkadian (ca. 2,200 B.C.)


As. 32:651
Oriental Institute Museum A11353   

Created: December 12, 2004
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