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Alabaster Cylinder with a Sacred Scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008

Alabaster Cylinder with a Sacred Scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008
Cylinder with a Sacred Scene
Alabaster (gypsum)
Northwestern Iran
Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC

Accession # 86.11.1

Shamash, the sun god, shown holding a club and a short sword, stands in an ascending posture and emerges from the portals of heaven, which are held open by two deities. Also present are male and female deities, a human-headed bull, and an animal squatting on a staff.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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