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Cylinder Seal: Bull and Winged Gate
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A semi-couchant bull with a "winged gate," followed by three standing figures: the front figure reaches out one hand to hold the gate; the figure behind him stands with hands clasped; the tallest figure at the back stretches out both arms and grasps one wing of the gate and one horn of the bull.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Edward Waters
Title: Cylinder Seal: Bull and Winged Gate
Description:
A semi-couchant bull with a "winged gate," followed by three standing figures: the front figure reaches out one hand to hold the gate; the figure behind him stands with hands clasped; the tallest figure at the back stretches out both arms and grasps one wing of the gate and one horn of the bull.
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