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Lozenges outlined by oblique bands

between 3100 B.C. and 2900 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 36
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 40 x 19 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Evidence of the wide distribution of Jamdat Nasr seals is furnished by the discovery of an almost identical seal--perhaps from the same seal cutter's workshop--at Alisar in Anatolia (H.H. von der Osten, The Alishar Hu[umluat]y[umlaut]: Seasons of 1930-1932 [Oriental Institute Publications, vol. XXVIII, Chicago, 1937], pt. I, fig. 186e455)." Porada, CANES, p. 7
Summary
Lozenges outlined by oblique bands formed of parallel lines, drillings in lozenges and within bands
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department