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Title: Cylinder seal
Period: Old Babylonian
Date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Babylonian
Medium: Hematite
Dimensions: 0.89 in. (2.26 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession Number: 41.160.229
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