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

Banquet scene with seated figures raising beakers

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 113
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 23 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Above: Attendant between two facing seated figures, each raising beaker; another attendant at sideboard --Below: Hero defending(?) one of two antelopes clutched by eagle.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department