between 2700 B.C. and 2500 B.C.
white marble
26 x 16 mm
Morgan Seal 60
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Equally distinctive of this age is the two-pointed headdress seen in 60 and 61 and rendered on a larger scale in an alabaster plaque from Fara." Porada, CANES, p. 9-10
Summary:
Bull-man between ram and bull -- Two crossed lions, one with tail ending in serpent head, which is held by hero who grasps ram that initiates scene -- Reversed dagger in field.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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