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Title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene
Period: Neo-Assyrian / Neo-Babylonian
Date: late 8th–7th century BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Assyro-Babylonian
Medium: Variegated gray and cream Chalcedony (Quartz)
Dimensions: 1 7/16 × 11/16 × 11/16 in. (3.7 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Matilda W. Bruce, 1907
Object Number: 07.155.1
“Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me,” The Jewish Museum, New York, May 3–September 6, 1964.
“Fantasy of Flight.” Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey, September 16, 1974 – November 23, 1974.
“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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