Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Scorpion and plant

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.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department