Cylinder Seal with Worshippers and Sacred Tree, 850 - 775 BCE

  • Assyrian, Mesopotamian

Carnelian

  • Overall: 1 × 7/16 inches (2.5 × 1.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

30.318

On View

  • Ancient Middle East Gallery

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

(Tibibian)

1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA Statewide Services Travelling Exhibiton. Detroit, February 5, 1984-December 16, 1985, cat. no. 3. 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. 70, no. 13.

Assyrian, Mesopotamian; Neo-Assyrian, Mesopotamian; Neo-Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Cylinder Seal with Worshippers and Sacred Tree, 850 - 775 BCE, carnelian. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.318.