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Stamp seal with a knob handle: bird of prey with two horned animals caught in its talons

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Black steatite, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Old Assyrian Trading Colony

Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase 1899

Animals Birds

Central Anatolia, Old Assyrian Trading Colony

Title: Stamp seal with a knob handle: bird of prey with two horned animals caught in its talons

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Black steatite, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Old Assyrian Trading Colony.

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