between 900 B.C. and 600 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 620
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 29 x 8.5 (9.5) mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 620-623 each show a standing archer aiming at his quarry. Of these seals only 623, made of burnt clay, can be approximately dated. Its rendering of the archer corresponds with that in Berlin 696, a frit seal dated by Moortgat about 800 B.C."--Porada, CANES, p. 73-74
Cylinder with convex sides.
Cylinder with convex sides.
Summary
Archer attacking winged bull, plant between them -- In sky, crescent, star.
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