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| Keywords: Mesopotamian - Cylinder Seal with Human Headed Winged Bull and Inscription - Walters 42808 - Side F.jpg This scene on this seal depicts a human headed winged lion wearing a horned crown with an inverted crescent in the field above him The scene also incorporates a cuneiform inscription in three registers late 2nd millenium BC Neo-Babylonain ; Assyrian yellow transparent stone cm 2 4 0 9 accession number 42 808 4549 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 Inscription place of origin Mesopotamia Walters Art Museum license Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Art of Mesopotamia in the Walters Art Museum Lions in art of the ancient Near East Animals in art of the ancient Near East Pa cuneiform An cuneiform Griffin cylinder seal Walters 42808 Walters Art Museum cylinder seals with cuneiform Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
