Title: Cylinder seal (with pin preserved) with animal-monster contest scene
Object type: Cylinder seal
Date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Black Steatite, with copper/bronze pin
Dimensions: 1 3/8 × 9/16 × 9/16 in. (3.55 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm)
Credit line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961
Geography:      Iran Hasanlu    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Griffins, term: Rams