Stock Photo - Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription, Akkadian, ca. 2250–2150 B.C., Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Albite, H. 15/16 in. ( 3.4 cm ); Diam. 7/8 in. ( 2.3 cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed, Contests between heroes and animals first appeared in cylinder seals in the late fourth millennium B.C., and by the middle of the third millennium B.C., the combatants, which might include mythological opponents, had assumed heroic status

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