Babylonian cylinder seal with a priest, a hero and a lion

An image of Seal. Cylinder seal with incised decoration showing a priest, a hero fighting a bull and a lion, and also a lion attacking a goat. Hematite, length 0.019 m, width 0.011 m, circa 1800-1600 BC. 1st Dynasty of Babylon.

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Seal. Cylinder seal with incised decoration showing a priest, a hero fighting a bull and a lion, and also a lion attacking a goat. Hematite, length 0.019 m, width 0.011 m, circa 1800-1600 BC. 1st Dynasty of Babylon.

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Accession Number: ANE.1.1967
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 683 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 78.42kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2009:03:25 14:32:56

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animals antiquity Babylonian BC bulls cylinder cylinder seal cylindrical Fitz_ANT hematite hero heroic incised Iraqi seal

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