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Banquet scene with banqueters holding beakers

between 2700 B.C. and 2500 B.C.
onyx marble
22 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 106
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

Seals 105 and 106, however,... belong to the Second Early Dynastic period... Seal 106 corresponds closely with a seal from Fara (Berlin 101) dated by Moortgat in that period..." Porada, CANES, p. 16

Summary: 

Attendant standing between woman and man, seated facing, each raising beaker.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Period: 
Second Early dynastic period
Catalog link: 
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Classification: 
Cylinder seal
Department: 
Seals and Tablets