Cylinder seal decorated with a contest scene (impression)

An image of Cylinder seal decorated with a contest scene showing a minor divinity grasping a human-headed bull by the foreleg. On one side a king and another human figure overpower a lion. Another vignette shows a rampant lion attacking a bull. An axe and an eight-pointed star appear in the field. Serpentine, dark green, length 0.032 m, width 0.021 m, c. 2400-2200 BC. Sargonid, Akkadian.

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Cylinder seal decorated with a contest scene showing a minor divinity grasping a human-headed bull by the foreleg. On one side a king and another human figure overpower a lion. Another vignette shows a rampant lion attacking a bull. An axe and an eight-pointed star appear in the field. Serpentine, dark green, length 0.032 m, width 0.021 m, c. 2400-2200 BC. Sargonid, Akkadian.

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Accession Number: ANE.1.1952
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 461 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 75.68kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:10:31 17:16:37

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animal animals antiquity Assyrian Assyrian Empire Assyrians BC bulls contest cylinder seal divine divinity figurative figures Fitz_ANT impression lions Neo-Assyrian Sargonid dynasty scenes seal seal impression vignette

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