Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription

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Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription, Akkadian, ca. 2250–2150 , Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Albite, H. 15/16 in. ( cm ); Diam. 7/8 in. ( cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed, Contests between heroes and animals first appeared in cylinder seals in the late fourth millennium , and by the middle of the third millennium , the combatants, which might include mythological opponents, had assumed heroic status

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