Chariot scene and contest scene with bull-man holding snake and curved weapon

between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble
38 x 23.5 mm
Morgan Seal 119
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"An episode of battle is possibly the subject of the fragmentary upper register of 119, in which a charioteer seems to be driving his horse over a fallen foe. The contest frieze in the lower register of 119 shows the same cursory treatment as the friezes on the seal of Ninturnin (Ur 216). Seal 119 may therefore be assigned to the later phase of the Third Early Dynastic period." Porada, CANES, p. 17

Summary: 

Above: Lion and reversed goat (rest erased to produce empty panel) -- Chariot with driver and horse(?); under horse, fallen foe; before it, small figure under disk with rays -- Below: Bull-man holding snake and curved weapon, facing antelope -- Latter clutched by one of two crossed lions, second of which grasps bull while being assailed by bull-man with long spear --Uncertain lines suggesting break in design -- Mouflon -- Hero attacking lion with curved weapon.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
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