Cylinder seal

Near Eastern, Iranian?

Neo-Elamite ?

900–600 B.C.

Object Place: Iran?

Medium/Technique Stone

Dimensions Legacy dimension: 26.3 mm x 9.9

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

Accession Number65.1532

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsSeals

DescriptionSerrated border top and bottom, bird/scorpion man shooting at griffin. Crescent and star above, cuneiform signs scattered in field.

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