82nd & Fifth: Cylinder Seals

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Video

Mark Cartwright
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 07 February 2016

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/sealed

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"It does seem to indicate the balancing of forces of nature."

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