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

Crescent, scorpion, fish

between 1350 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 1065
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 16 x 8 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Similarly, the various motifs that make up the designs of 1065-1067 seem to have no related significance. However, in these seals the decorative tendency of the Mitannians is expressed by arrangement of the motifs in definite patterns."--Porada, CANES, p. 147
Summary
Upper field: row of five men -- Lower field: row of three birds.
Classification
Department