between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
bluish chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 719
Description
1 cylinder seal : bluish chalcedony ; 27 x 13 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Some late drilled-style cylinders have contest scenes (719-723). Seals 719 and 720 present a cursory rendering of the archer pursuing a lion-griffin, as in 689, which belongs to the linear syste, and 690, which is of early drilled style."--Porada, CANES, p. 86
Summary
Archer in assault on lion-griffin menacing tree that has winged sun disk above it; before archer, rhomb; behind him, table -- Cross-shaped object in sky.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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