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Collections | Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets Views: List | Single work | Overview Text only « | ‹ | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | › | » Zigzag Ladder Patterns Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Late Uruk period/Jamdat Nasr period (ca. 3500–2900 B.C.) Serpentine 48 x 13.5 mm Seal no. 35 Pattern of Two Running Goats, One Above the Other Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic I period (ca. 2900–2750 B.C.) Serpentine 42 x 10.5 mm Seal no. 48 Hero Grasping Bull and Mouflon Menaced by a Lion Attacked by a Second Hero Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic II period (ca. 2750–2600 B.C.) Marble 28 x 24 mm Seal no. 52 Three demons Whose Legs Are Foreparts of Merged Lions Whose Tails End In Serpent Heads Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic II period (ca. 2750–2600 B.C.) Shell 30 x 14 mm Seal no. 59 Lion-Armed Demon with Human Torso and Legs; Two Scorpions; Small Seated Figure, and Crossed Lions Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic II period (ca. 2750–2600 B.C.) Marble 37 x 24 mm Seal no. 61 Horned Deity (?) Seated Before a Shrine, with a Nude Hero Attacking a Lion; Entwined Lion-Headed Snakes Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic II period (ca. 2750–2600 B.C.) Lapis lazuli 25 x 12 mm Seal no. 62 Seated Figures Drinking Through Tubes; Eagle Between Small Animals, with a Boar and Scorpion Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2600–2334 B.C.) Marble 38.5 x 24 mm Seal no. 112 Bull Man Protecting Horned Animals Attacked Felines; Scorpion Above Crossed Felines Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2600–2334 B.C.) Marble 41 x 25 mm Seal no. 75 « | ‹ | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | › | »

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