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Title: Cylinder seal
Period: Early Dynastic IIIb
Date: ca. 2500–2350 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Sumerian
Medium: Stone
Dimensions: H. 4.2 x Diam. 2.8 cm (1 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter Hauser, 1955
Accession Number: 55.65.7
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department,” MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan, The Aiche Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
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