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Contest frieze with feline, bull, lion, human-headed bull, and hero with upturned curls

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 74
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 36 x 21.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 74-77, which show a treatment of the frieze similar to that in 73, may be assigned to the same time." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary
Feline attacking bull with help of lion that is crossed with human-headed bull -- Hero with upturned curls and poised dagger -- Terminal: horizontals with lion and horned animal crossed above, scorpion below.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department