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Contest frieze with lions and stags

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 67
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 23 x 10.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Cylinder unfinished(?).
Summary
Two crossed lions attacking two stags, each of which has star below head -- Small goat standing below horizontals, empty panel above -- Hero with upturned curls and arm upraised.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department