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Cylinder Seal with Hero, Two Bulls and a Tree
725 - 600 BCE
(Artist) Assyrian, Mesopotamian (Artist) Babylonian, Mesopotamian
Carnelian
Overall: 15/16 × 1/2 inches (2.4 × 1.3 cm)
Glyptic Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Gift of Dr. Robert Winthrop Gillman
52.47
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Provenance
Dr. Robert Winthrop Gillman [-1956]
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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possibly Assyrian, Mesopotamian; possibly Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Cylinder Seal with Hero, Two Bulls and a Tree, 725 - 600 BCE, carnelian. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Robert Winthrop Gillman, 52.47.
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