Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene, ca. 2250–2150 BCE
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Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Medium
Chert
Classification
Cylinder seal
Dimensions
H. 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)
Culture
Akkadian
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient West Asian Art
Credit line
Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art