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Title: Stamp seal (conoid) with two-figure contest
Period: Neo-Assyrian / Neo-Babylonian
Date: second half of 8th–7th century BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia or Syria or Cyprus (?)
Culture: Assyro-Babylonian
Medium: Brown, neutral, and white Agate (Quartz)
Dimensions:
Seal Face; 1.65 x 1.73 cm
Height: 2.38 cm
String Hole: 0.3 cm
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.4362
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