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

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

Contest frieze

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 358
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 20 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
"Center: lion attacked by hero wearing cap and by bull-man holding lion scimitar -- In field: vessel above bowlegged dwarf; dog balancing crook -- Terminal: lion club between small worshiper and ball staff." Porada, CANES, p. 45
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department