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Contest frieze with eagle, antelope, and mouflon

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 98
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 24.5 x 14 mm
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.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department