between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble
40 x 25.5 mm
Morgan Seal 76
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
Cylinder damaged.
"Seals 74-77, which show a treatment of the frieze similar to that in 73, may be assigned to the same time." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary:
Bull-man attacking lion, which menaces one of two bulls grasped by hero -- Leopard attacking second bull.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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