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

Worshiper, scorpion-man, and kneeling lion-griffin

between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
white chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 712
Description
1 cylinder seal : white chalcedony ; 29 x 14 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Worshiper facing scorpion-man, between them tasseled crescent staff on kneeling lion-griffin -- Terminal: winged sun disk, rhomb, fish, one above other.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department