between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
black serpentine
24.5 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 98
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Even so distinctive a feature as the merging of the bird's body and tail in a cone occurs not only in the Third (98, 99) but also in the Second Early Dynastic period (102)."--Porada, CANES, p. 15
Summary:
Eagle, its body and tail merged into cone marked with herringbone pattern, clutching antelope and mouflon -- Crescent(?) in sky -- Terminal: Plant.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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