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Contest frieze with lions attacking horned animals, feline, and hero with upturned curls

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 71
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 38 x 23.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Cylinder damaged.
Summary
Center: two crossed lions each seizing horned animal -- Left: feline attacking first horned animal -- Right: hero with upturned curls and fleeced kilt, wielding weapon(?).
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department