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Contest frieze with lions and horned animals

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 95
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 16.5 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 95 and 96, which like 94 present crossed lions and their victims in a centered, strictly symmetrical group, are too sketchy in execution to permit of precise dating." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary
Crossed lions attacking two horned animals --Terminal: vertical bar on horizontal.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department