Contest frieze with human-headed bull, nude bearded hero, bull-man, stag, feline, and hero with upturned curls

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
lapis lazuli
30 x 15 mm
Morgan Seal 78
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

Cylinder corroded.
"Seal 78 may be of somewhat later date [than 74-77], because its figures, especially the nude bearded hero, correspond with those on the impression of a cylinder of Lugalanda of Lagash, a prince who ruled a few decades before Sargon of Akkad." Porada, CANES, p. 13

Summary: 

Human-headed bull held by nude bearded hero -- Bull-man holding stag, which is attacked by feline -- Latter menaced by hero with upturned curls.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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