Lot 1417
Akkadian Green Serpentine Hero Cylinder Seal, ca. 2300-2150 BC. This seal features high quality green serpentine with beautifully intricate incised details. The seal depicts two concurrent contests of strength, one between a lion and a bull-headed man and another between a bull and a man. Both bearded men, standing toward the creatures they are wrestling with their heads facing the viewer. It bears an inscription between the two men that says, "Uru, bare, daughter of Messlil, wife of …"
Portada 160-166. Cf. Cylinder seal: bull-man combating lion; nude hero combating water buffalo; inscription, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Similar hero cylinder seal published in Art from the First Cities, number 147. Measures: 3 X 2 cm.
Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
Ex Malter Gallery (2004), Lot 317.
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