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

Banquet scene with figures on either side of gate or sideboard

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 109
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 28.5 x 13 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Above: Two figures seated on either side of gate or sideboard -- Eagle between two reversed goats, two drillings between heads of these goats. No common axis of scenes of upper and lower register.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department