Cylinder seal: contest scene

c. 2350–2150 BC · Akkad

Cylinder seal: contest scene, from the Akkadian empire, dated c. 2350–2150 BC. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 2350–2150 BC

Civilization

Akkad

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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