between 900 B.C. and 775 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 635
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 15.5 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"In 635 and 636, the principal figure is a bull. In 635 the animal is charging at a rosette; this theme probably represents an abbreviation of such contest scenes as that of 618. Since the renderings of the bull in 635 and 618 are almost identical, a dating in correspondence with that of the latter seal, in the ninth or in the earlier part of the eighth century, is indicated for 635."--Porada, CANES, p. 75
Summary
Charging bull, rosette before it -- Seven globes in sky.
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department