between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 122
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 23 x 11.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seal 122 is too badly preserved to permit of comment on the relation between its two figures. The motif could be regarded as either an offering scene or a shortened banquet scene." Porada, CANES, p. 18
Summary
Attendant or worshiper before seated figure -- Lizard and forepart of animal over scorpion.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department