File:Mitannian - Cylinder Seal with Winged Genie - Walters 42671.jpg
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[edit]Cylinder Seal with Winged Genie
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Anonymous (Mitanni) |
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| Title |
Cylinder Seal with Winged Genie |
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English: A winged figure with legs in the form of coiling snakes holds two horned animals by their tails. To the side, two lions attack a fallen antelope below the divine emblems of a winged disk and two rosettes. This composition is similar to a seal impression found on a letter from the Mitannian king to the king of Egypt. The art of the Mitannian kingdom, a major international power in northern Mesopotamia and eastern Syria during the 15th and 14th centuries BC, is best known through its seals. العربية: طبعة من الصلصال لختم أسطواني من النوع المتقن، يصور جنيًا مجنحًا يسيطر على حيوانات وحيوانات قتالية وتصميمات نباتية وألواح مجنحة، متحف والترز للفنون |
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| Date | between 1500 and 1300 BC (Mitannian) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | hematite | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 2.2 cm (0.8 in); diameter: 1.2 cm (0.4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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42.671 |
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| Place of creation | Mitanni (in Mesopotamia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credit line | Museum purchase, 1941 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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- Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum
- Walters Art Museum cylinder seal impressions
- Reliefs of antelopes in the United States
- Reliefs of lions in the United States
- Lions in art of the ancient Near East
- Animals in art of the ancient Near East
- Mitanni seal impressions
- Lions in decorative and applied arts
- Mythological hybrids
- Winged snakes