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Collections | Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets Views: List | Single work | Overview Text only « | ‹ | 10 11 12 | › Centaur with a Bow and Arrow Attacking Winged Lion Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period (ca.1000–539 B.C.) Agate 30 x 9 (11) mm Seal no. 749 Armed Hero Grasping Kicking Ostrich; Worshiper Behind Two Fish Men with Pollen Baskets Flanking Sacred Tree; God in Winged Sun Disk Above Cylinder sea and impressionl Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period (ca.1000–539 B.C.) Carnelian 37 x 17 mm Seal no. 773 Worshiper Before Two Altars Adorned with Divine Symbols Cylinder seal Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period (ca.1000–539B.C.) Lapis lazuli 39 x 18 mm Seal no. 781 Attendant Waving Palm Whisk over Table Before Seated King Raising Cup, Attendant with Fan and Towel Behind King Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period (ca.1000–539 B.C.) Chalcedony 27 x 12 mm Seal no. 776 Eye Stone Amulet with a Dedication Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Akkadian Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (ca. 604–562 B.C.) Inscribed: To Marduk, his lord, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, gave this for his life agate 3.84 cm diameter MLC no. 2624 See more in Written in Stone online exhibition » Tablet Inscribed in Akkadian with a Fragment of the Epic of Adapa Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period (ca. seventh century B.C.); clay MLC 1296 Tablet Inscribed in Babylonian with a Ritual for the Observances of Eclipses Mesopotamia, seleucid period (ca. third-first century B.C.); baked clay MLC 1872 Persian Warrior with Greek Prisoners of War Cylinder seal and impression Persia, Achaemenid period (ca. 550–330 B.C.) Carnelian 23 x 10 mm Seal no. 833 « | ‹ | 10 11 12 | ›

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