Contest frieze with lions and bulls

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
shell
25 x 13.5 mm
Morgan Seal 96
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 bulls -- Terminal: Bird of prey with horizontal and drilling above, second drilling below.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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