Dragon menacing mouflon

ca. 800 B.C.
black serpentine
30 x 11.5 mm
Morgan Seal 627
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"A number of linear-style cylinders depict monsters or lions attacking horned animals (627-631); others show monsters and animals calmly walking in a row (632), or only monsters walking (633, 634). These seals constitute a relatively uniform group and can be dated on the basis of Berlin 647, which belongs to about 800 B.C., according to Moortgat, and shows the same type of scene in comparable execution."--Porada, CANES, p. 75

Summary: 

Dragon menacing mouflon as it plunges forward -- In sky, crescent, seven globes -- Three wedges scattered in rest of field.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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