Cylinder Seal with a Row of Human Figures above Animals

Description This seal depicts a group of Mitannian deities. A winged male stands between two bulls and holds aloft a winged disk from which a deity emerges. Two male figures kneel on the backs of the bulls in adoration. A winged female stands holding small animals, and a male deity stands on a lion's back. He holds a weapon (possibly a mace) in one hand and a horned animal in the other; a bird perches on his shoulder. The tradition of representing deities on the backs of animals came from central Anatolia.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/04/1968	Treatment	other

Provenance Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Joseph Brummer, New York, 1941; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1941