between 3100 B.C. and 2600 B.C.
green serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 47
Description
1 cylinder seal : green serpentine ; 41 x 13 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"This seal has such a close parallel in a piece discovered at Kish (E. Mackay, A Sumerian Palace and the "A" Cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia [Field Museum of Natural History: Anthropology, Memoirs, vol. I, no. 2, Chicago, 1929], pt. ii, pl. vi2), that it might be assumed that the two were made by the same seal cutter." Porada, CANES, p. 8-9
Summary
Pattern with cow, calf, fish, rhomb, drilling -- Indeterminate object in sky.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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