Cylinder seal and modern impression: seated goddess before figures carrying boxes, one placed on "altar"
Unknown Artist
ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
0.93 in. (2.36 cm)
Classification
Stone-Cylinder Seals
Culture & Period
Sumerian · Early Dynastic IIIa
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984
Accession Number
1984.383.5
Tags
Goddess