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Lozenges with drillings

between 3100 B.C. and 2900 B.C.
white marble
11 mm diameter
Morgan Seal 40
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

Lower part of cylinder broken off.
"[40] shows patterns probably derived from weaving or mat plaiting." Porada, CANES, p. 7

Summary: 

Lozenges with drillings.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Period: 
Jamdat Nasr period
Catalog link: 
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Classification: 
Cylinder seal
Department: 
Seals and Tablets