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Cylinder Seal with Two Rams’ Heads and Two Donkeys’ Heads(?)
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Perkins
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