between 3100 B.C. and 2900 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 31
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 36.5 x 21 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"... a pot of the Jamdat Nasr period shows a scorpion in a panel and the effect is much the same as that produced by the design of seal 31."--Porada, CANES, p. 6-7
Summary
Scorpion -- Plant.
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department