A large Sumerian Marble Cylinder Seal, Early Dynastic I- III, ca. 2700 - 2400 BCE Tools & Weapons some minor losses and abrasion

some minor losses and abrasion from usage

Such pendants were made across the Levant

stones with this kind of eye-like pattern were often valued for more than their appearance

To the Egyptians

A large Sumerian Marble Cylinder Seal, Early Dynastic I- III, ca. 2700 - 2400 BCE Tools & Weapons some minor losses and abrasionA new start in Sumerian glyptic occurred in Early Dynastic II, with the conventionally called "Contest Scene" becoming the most common design. In fact, it shows the larger domesticated animals being protected from attacks of lions and other marauders by divine beings; a form of sympathetic magic because people hoped that in real life temple herds would be saved, where necessary, by divine intervention. Inscriptions naming the seals' owners also began