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Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot
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Hematite, Late Cypriot II, Cypriot
Rights: Public Domain
Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian 1999
Title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot
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Hematite, Late Cypriot II, Cypriot.
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