Cylinder seal with monster contest scene

c. 900–700 BC · Babylon

Cylinder seal with monster contest scene, from Babylonia, dated c. 900–700 BC. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 900–700 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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