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Horned animals

between 3100 B.C. and 2900 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 43
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 24 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Seal chipped at top and bottom.
"[42] shows abbreviated forms of running horned animals, probably derived from such seals as 28." Porada, CANES, p. 7
Summary
Pattern formed by simplified horned animals(?).
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department