AN AKKADIAN LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL
AN AKKADIAN LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 2334-2154 B.C.

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AN AKKADIAN LAPIS LAZULI CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 2334-2154 B.C.
With a superbly balanced and detailed contest scene between matching pairs, each consisting of a nude bearded Lahmu (hairy hero), with a triple-stranded belt around the waist, grappling with a standing bull with a human face, both bull-men in the center with their heads turned back and frontal, a spouted vessel as a filler between the pair to the right, a separate contest scene to the right between a hero and a rearing bull, the hero in a short kilt, his hair arranged in a bun, the terminal two superimposed figures, the upper in a short kilt, holding the 'ball-staff,' the lower in a long robe, holding a vessel
30 x 18 mm