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Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5212, described as Cylinder seal, white shell [shell crossed out; handwritten on card: calemous stone]: Lions attacking horned animals, one human. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal, bone. Condition: surface damaged, one chip on upper edge (1x1cm irregular). Areas of iron oxide stain. Early Dynastic III. Contest scene: skirted hero holds horned animals, each stylized in a different manner. These animals have their heads turned backward and each is attacked by a lion. Between the two lions is a rampant horned animal.] [Handwritten on card: References - cf. Porada, Edith. (ed) 1948. Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections I. The collection of the Pierpont-Morgan Library, The Bollingen Series XIV. Washington: Pantheon. #82, vol. 1, pg 12; Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #255, #470 & 875 for treatment of animals, ED II]

Hearst Museum object titled Point, accession number 9-12181, described as Broken point made from bone.