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

Female figures with pots

between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
pink marble ;
Morgan Seal 10
Description
1 cylinder seal : pink marble ; 25 x 25 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
"Figure on bench or mat above two pots and facing four other figures: first of the latter squatting on construction between two poles, other three in same posture above row of pots. Before each figure, one or two pots." Porada, CANES, p. 5
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department