Culture or time period: Early Dynastic III (ca. 2700–2340 BC) / Materials: Jasper - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5216, described as Cylinder seal: large mottled gray [large mottled gray crossed out; handwritten on card: banded gray jasper], lion attacking horned animal; Babylonian. Photo: 13-5579-80 [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal. Chipped and worn. A rampant caprid crosses a human headed bull which fights a lion to the right. The caprid is in combat with a second rampant caprid with head turned back. Behind this animal is an upright figure] [Handwritten on card: badly worn. Two animals fighting, one crosses a human headed bull, also in combat with a lion. Mouflon assailed by nude hero flanked by part of a starburst or plant; Style - ED III; Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, Oriental Institute Publications, 72. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, #271 (EDIII), #502 (EDIIIa - human headed bull)]