Cylinder Seal with King or God and Vanquished Lion

Description The scene on this seal features a central motif of a tree. On one side, a bearded hero is holding an inverted bovid; on the other, a bull man is holding an inverted lion. There are cuneiform inscriptions running through the scene in two places.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/04/1968	Treatment	other
5/26/2010	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 [Inscription]

Credit Museum purchase, 1941