between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
black serpentine
27 x 23 mm
Morgan Seal 17
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Jamdat Nasr seals bearing animal rows derive from cylinders of the Uruk period presenting the same theme. For example, 7 recalls the seals of the earlier period in its careful execution of the animal bodies, and 18 shows an Uruk feature in the antelope head placed in the field... However, in 17 the drill is used more heavily than on characteristic Uruk seals..." Porada, CANES, p. 5
Summary:
Tree, with three goats (second male) approaching it.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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