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Cylinder Seal of Banquet Scene

Collection number印039-1554
ProvenanceMesopotamia
PeriodAkkadian period
Dateca. 2350-2200 BCE
MaterialSerpentine
DimensionH. 2.7 cm
CommentIn this cylinder seal, two persons are drinking beer through straw from a large vase between them. This motif had been popular in Early Dynastic period and Akkadian period, and scholars called it as "banquet scene".
Classificationseal
KeywordsBlack
Tiny, Pleasant
Western Asia, Iraq, Mesopotamia
Bronze Age, Early Bronze Age, Akkadian Empire
Stone/mineral, Serpentine
Seal/Sealing, Cylinder seal
Scene, Banquet, Human, Object, Vessel
資料ID745

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