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Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man wrestling with lion; nude bearded hero wrestling with a water buffalo

Unknown Artist

ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man wrestling with lion; nude bearded hero wrestling with a water buffalo by Unknown Artist

Medium

Serpentine, black

Dimensions

1.42 in. (3.61 cm)

Classification

Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed

Culture & Period

Akkadian · Akkadian

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941

Accession Number

41.160.281

Rights

Public Domain

Tags

LionsMenBuffalos

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