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Cylinder seal with animal-monster contest scene
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Flawed and veined neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)
- Dimensions
- H. 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm ); Diam. 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)
- Culture
- Babylonian
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Dated
- 9th–8th century BCE
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2672
- SHA-256
- 4a256f0343bf51be…
- Record
- View at the source institution ↗
License, verbatimCC0
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.
Cylinder seal with animal-monster contest scene. 9th–8th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.