Cylinder Seal with Bull and Lion on Hind Legs

Description The scene depicts two sets of battling beasts. The first is a strangely posed bull-man, wrestling with a fantastic lion-like creature; the second is another strangely posed bull-man, wrestling with a composite horned caprid/bull creature. There is one register of cuneiform (?).

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.

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Credit Museum purchase, 1941