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

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 354
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 23 x 12 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
God with mace; gazelle held by nude bearded hero; pole raised by bull-man; bull reversed by nude bearded hero; lion assailing bull-man.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department