About the Artwork
Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
1900 - 1600 BCE
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Mesopotamian
Babylonian
Hematite
Overall: 1 1/8 × 11/16 inches (2.9 × 1.7 cm)
Glyptic Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
45.498
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Charles L. Morely)
1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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von der Osten, H.H. Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mrs. Agnas Baldwin Brett, vol. XXXVII. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, 1936, pp. vii, 1, 21-23, 25, 29, 34, 39, 45-46, 48, 51, 56-57, 61, p. XII, 164.
Bulletin of the DIA 42, no. 4 (1963): pp. 73-75 (ill.).
Meerchyad, Lina. "Ancient Mesopotamian Seals in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): p. 65-67 (fig. 11, 13), 70, no. 13.
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Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene, 1900 - 1600 BCE, hematite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 45.498.
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