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Title: Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Period: Neo-Assyrian / Neo-Babylonian
Date: late 8th–6th century BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Assyro-Babylonian
Medium: Flawed pink Carnelian (Quartz)
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1.6 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984
Object Number: 1984.383.44
"Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 22, 2014–January 4, 2015.
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