ca. 2370 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 79
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 35 x 23 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Cylinder unfinished.
"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. Perhaps 79 was planned in the same style; however, it was never completed." Porada, CANES, p. 13
"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. Perhaps 79 was planned in the same style; however, it was never completed." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary
Lion attacked by nude bearded hero -- Crossed human-headed bulls, one head not carved.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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