Cylinder Seal with Figure and Inscriptions

Description The scene on this cylinder seal depicts a standing figure in long robe, with a star in the field behind him and a standing altar (?) with a winged disk of Assur above it, as well as an inverted crescent. The scene is completed by a two-line cuneiform inscription.

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