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Contest frieze with kilted hero, horned animals, and lion

ca. 2400 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 90
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 21 x 12 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"...the rather cursory rendering of the animals [in seals 85-90] ... conforms in general with that of the animal forms on Ur 216, the seal of Ninturnin, wife of King Mesannipadda, who appears to have ruled in Ur a little earlier than the time of the reign of Lugalanda in Lagash."--Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary
Kilted figure beside plant -- Group with kilted hero in center, latter grasping two horned animals each attacked by lion -- Terminal: uncertain lines.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department