between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 77
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 42 x 25 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Cylinder damaged.
"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
"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
Bull between assailing lion and leopard.
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department