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| Keywords: Mesopotamian - Cylinder Seal with Winged Bull - Walters 42733.jpg The Assyrian empire rose to power in the Middle Assyrian period During this time the art of the cylinder seal increased in naturalism movement and sculptural quality This seal exemplifies these trends as a winged bull alights dramatically one foreleg folding under the body and one hind leg kicking upward between 1400 1200 BC Middle Assyrian red and yellow stone cm 3 1 3 accession number 42 733 33570 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 place of origin Mesopotamia Walters Art Museum license Art of Mesopotamia in the Walters Art Museum Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Walters Art Museum cylinder seal impressions Cylinder seal impressions Assyrian seal impressions Bulls in art Animals in art of the ancient Near East Mythological hybrids Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Middle Assyrian Period | ||||
