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Monster with bull's head and scorpion body attacked by archer

ca. 800 B.C.
burnt clay ;
Morgan Seal 623
Description
1 cylinder seal : burnt clay ; 25 x 13 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 620-623 each show a standing archer aiming at his quarry. Of these seals only 623, made of burnt clay, can be approximately dated. Its rendering of the archer corresponds with that in Berlin 696, a frit seal dated by Moortgat about 800 B.C."--Porada, CANES, p. 73-74
Summary
Monster with bull's head and scorpion body attacked from rear by archer -- Between figures, plant, single wedge beside it -- In sky, seven globes, crescent, triple wedge -- Terminal: plant with two shoots.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department