between 2700 B.C. and 2500 B.C.
onyx marble ;
Morgan Seal 105
Description
1 cylinder seal : onyx marble ; 29 x 17.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 105 and 106, however,... belong to the Second Early Dynastic period. In 105 the female figure wears a headdress from which something like a tuft of hair projects, as in a figure on an engraved limestone cup found in one of the layers of the Second Early Dynastic period at Khafajah." Porada, CANES, p. 16
Summary
Above: Seated woman, with headdress from which tuft of hair(?) projects, raising beaker; attendant touching plant before her; second attendant touching plant on stand before seated man holding beaker -- Below: Row of three grazing antelopes.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department