between 2700 B.C. and 2500 B.C.
white marble
24.5 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 107
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
Seals 105 and 106, however, and perhaps also 107 and 112, belong to the Second Early Dynastic period... Seal 106 corresponds closely with a seal from Fara (Berlin 101) dated by Moortgat in that period, and 107 has a linear execution, suggesting that this seal too was was made before the Third Early Dynastic period." Porada, CANES, p. 16
Summary:
Two facing seated figures drinking from vessel through tubes -- Lion and horned animal crossed.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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