Cylinder Seal with Contest of Hero and Human-headed Bulls, 2350 - 2200 BCE

  • Akkadian, Mesopotamian

Basalt

  • Overall: 1 × 9/16 inches (2.5 × 1.4 cm)

Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

37.44

On View

  • Ancient Middle East Gallery

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Lillian Henkel Haass (Michigan, USA)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Meerchyad, Lina. "Ancient Mesopotamian Seals in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): p. 70, no. 13.

Akkadian, Mesopotamian, Cylinder Seal with Contest of Hero and Human-headed Bulls, 2350 - 2200 BCE, basalt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 37.44.