between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 75
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 41 x 25 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 74-77, which show a treatment of the frieze similar to that in 73, may be assigned to the same time." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary
Leopard attacking horned animal that is assailed by one of two crossed lions, second of which attacks bull held by bull-man -- Between arms of latter, small feline head -- Terminal: horizontals with scorpion above and two small crossed animals below.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department