Cylinder seal

Near Eastern, Iranian, Elamite

Neo-Elamite

900–600 B.C.

Dimensions Legacy dimension: 20 m x 14.5

Credit Line William Francis Warden Fund and funds donated by Mrs. Oric Bates, Mrs. F. Carrington Weems, and Horace L. Mayer

Accession Number65.1520

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsSeals

DescriptionBearded hero with headband menaces a bird which attacks a moufflon below. Winged sundisk and another animal in field above.

Provenance1965, sold by R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian, Little Falls, NJ, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1965)