between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
onyx marble ;
Morgan Seal 111
Description
1 cylinder seal : onyx marble ; 31 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Above: Seated figure drinking through one of two tubes in vessel -- Attendant before figure seated opposite -- Below: Eagle between plant and reversed horned animal.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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