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

Three goats, goat's head, and vessel

between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
greenish-black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 18
Description
1 cylinder seal : greenish-black serpentine ; 19.5 x 17 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"18 shows an Uruk feature in the antelope [sic] head placed in the field... the animal bodies are rendered almost exclusively by means of larger and smaller drillings in distinctive Jamdat Nasr manner." Porada, CANES, p. 5
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department