Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshiper below a canopy flanked by winged genies

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Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshiper below a canopy flanked by winged genies, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th–7th century , Mesopotamia, Assyrian, Chalcedony, H. 1 1/4 in. ( cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals, Seals of the early first millennium in Babylonia and Assyria were carved in the linear, drilled, cut, and modeled styles. The modeled style illustrated here derives from earlier Middle Assyrian seal carving and from the modeled sculpture in the palace of Sargon II (r

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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