Cylinder Seal with a Figure, Animals, and an Inscription
(Ancient Near East )
Disproportionate to the point of being disfigured, a standing figure in long robe (cinched at waist) feeds two animals which look like reindeer-giraffe hybrids beneath a sun with rays emanating from it. The scene also includes three registers of cuneiform.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
Measurements
Diam: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1941
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.634