WESTERN ASIATIC CYLINDER SEAL WITH NUDE HERO 2500-2300 BC A marble cylinder seal with hero between rampant beasts; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of White Marble 25 x 16 mm. The design consists of the same scene twice over, with slightly varying filling shapes. A standing apparently nude hero is putting his arms around the necks of two rearing horned animals, one each side, which are turning their heads away from the hero. Oval blobs fill spaces in the scenes. This comes from some area of western or central Iran and
WESTERN ASIATIC CYLINDER SEAL WITH NUDE HERO 2500-2300 BC A marble cylinder seal with hero between rampant beasts; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of White Marble 25 x 16 mm. The design consists of the same scene twice over, with slightly varying filling shapes. A standing apparently nude hero is putting his arms around the necks of two rearing horned animals, one each side, which are turning their heads away from the hero. Oval blobs fill spaces in the scenes. This comes from some area of western or central Iran and
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