AN AKKADIAN MOTTLED GREEN AND WHITE STONE CYLINDER SEAL
AN AKKADIAN MOTTLED GREEN AND WHITE STONE CYLINDER SEAL

CIRCA 2334-2154 B.C.

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AN AKKADIAN MOTTLED GREEN AND WHITE STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Circa 2334-2154 B.C.
Deeply engraved and well-detailed with a seven-figure contest scene, to the right two bearded heroes grappling with two symmetrically arranged rearing bulls with human faces, their heads turned back and frontal, the hero to the right wearing a kilt and a flat cap, the hero to the left nude but for a triple-stranded belt, his face frontal with much hair, to their left a bearded hero in a short kilt and a conical cap attacking a rearing lion which is biting the shoulder of a bull-man who restrains him, the bull-man with his face turned frontal, wearing a triple-stranded belt
40 x 25.5 mm