between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
yellowish chert ;
Morgan Seal 706
Description
1 cylinder seal : yellowish chert ; 21 x 11.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Scratched cylinder.
Summary
Two worshipers, one at either side of tasseled crescent staff on stand -- Star in sky -- Bull's head and rhomb in field -- Terminal: winged sun disk above mouflon(?).
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department