Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshiper below a canopy flanked by winged genies, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th–7th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Assyrian, Chalcedony, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals, Seals of the early first millennium B.C. 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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Cylinder seal, modern impression, Ishtar image, worshiper, canopy flanked, winged genies, Neo-Assyrian, ca, 8th–7th century B.C, Mesopotamia, Assyrian, Chalcedony, H, 1 1/4, 3.1 cm, Stone-Cylinder Seals, Seals, early first millennium, B.C, Babylonia, Assyria, carved, linear, drilled, cut, modeled styles, style, illustrated, derives, earlier Middle, seal, carving, sculpture, palace, Sargon II, r
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