Cylinder Seal with a Nude Hero

Description In the Akkadian period, seal designs became more detailed. In the two scenes on this seal, a heroic figure with heavy beard and long curls holds off two roaring lions, and another hero struggles with a water buffalo. The inscription in the panel identifies the owner of this seal as "Ur-Inanna, the farmer."

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/05/1970	Treatment	cleaned; 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.

Inscriptions [Translation] Ur-Inanna, the farmer

Credit Museum purchase, 1941