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| Keywords: Near Eastern - Cylinder Seal with Figure and Inscriptions - Walters 42680 - Side A.jpg The scene on this cylinder seal depicts a standing figure in long robe with a star in the field behind him and a standing altar with a winged disk of Assur above it as well as an inverted crescent The scene is completed by a two-line cuneiform inscription date Neo-Babylonian brown stone cm 3 5 1 6 accession number 42 680 7294 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 Inscription place of origin Mesopotamia Walters Art Museum license Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Art of the ancient Near East Walters cylinder seal 42680 Cuneiform on media Cuneiform on cylinder seals Walters Art Museum cylinder seals with cuneiform DINGIR god-as-an Sumerogram DINGIR god-as-star Sumerogram An cuneiform KÚR cuneiform hostility warfare Akkadian nukurtu KÚR cuneiform Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
