between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
dull carnelian ;
Morgan Seal 722
Description
1 cylinder seal : dull carnelian ; 20 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"The modeling apparent in 722 may be due to the fact that the subject, a hero beside a tree, in the act of attacking a bull and ramming his foot into the animal's back, is derived from Assyrian modeled-style seals of the latter part of the eighth or of the seventh century B.C., as for example B N 328."--Porada, CANES, p. 86-87
Summary
Hero with scimitar attacking bull as it leaps toward tree -- Above tree, god in winged sun disk; before tree, monkey -- In sky: cross-shaped object topped by globe; crescent.
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department