Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Contest frieze with eagle and goats

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 100
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 29 x 14.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Eagle clutching two kneeling goats above two similar animals grazing -- Terminal: Crescent, plant, disk enclosing eight-pointed star, one above the other.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department