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Contest frieze with eagle, horned animals, and lions

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
burnt shell ;
Morgan Seal 99
Description
1 cylinder seal : burnt shell ; 29.5 x 16 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 with legs and tail merged, grasping two horned animals that are in turn clutched by crossed lions.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department