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Two genii flanking tree with winged sun disk above it

between 700 B.C. and 501 B.C.
white chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 734
Description
1 cylinder seal : white chalcedony ; 22 x 12 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Most of the seals of this style [cut-style]... date from the first millennium. They can be divided into an earlier group, dated approximately in the ninth or eighth century B.C. (724-733), and a later, belonging probably to the seventh and sixth centuries (734-746)... Seals 734-739 show the influence of the modeled style that prevailed in both regions in the latter part of the eighth century B.C."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Summary
Two genii flanking tree with winged sun disk above it.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department