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Banquet scene with figures on either side of gate or sideboard

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble
28.5 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 109
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary: 

Above: Two figures seated on either side of gate or sideboard -- Eagle between two reversed goats, two drillings between heads of these goats. No common axis of scenes of upper and lower register.

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