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Cylinder seal and modern impression: king holding two lion griffins at bay
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Jasper, hematite
- Dimensions
- 1 1/8 × 9/16 × 9/16 in. (2.9 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm)
- Culture
- Achaemenid
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Dated
- ca. 6th–5th century BCE
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2857
- SHA-256
- ff12942303b5ee93…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Cylinder seal and modern impression: king holding two lion griffins at bay. ca. 6th–5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.