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.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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