Hero grasping two goats
between 725 B.C. and 600 B.C.
black serpentine
30 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 625
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"It is certain that a late date must be ascribed to 625; though exectued in the linear style, it presents a hero with two victims--a motif characteristic of modeled-style seals fromt he time of Sargon II onward."--Porada, CANES, p. 74
Cylinder damaged.
Summary:
Center: hero grasping two goats -- Termimal: star above tree.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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