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This cylinder seal from the Uruk period (ca. 3200 BCE) shows the ruler, who may have been called en at this time, in the role of shepherd, feeding a herd of either sheep or cattle.

Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria with Official

Name: Cylinder seal with king

Material: White limestone

Size:
Height: 6.2 cm
Diameter: 4.3 cm

Date: ca. 3200 BCE

Place of Origin: Unknown

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Registration # and Source: Purchase, 1914. AO 6620. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Department of Oriental Antiquities, Richelieu. Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource (accessed May 7, 2010).

Jennie Myers

Research Associate, University of Chicago