between 700 and 00 B.C.
black serpentine
28 x 15 mm
Morgan Seal 639
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 639, which presents the unusual subject of a bull-man and a standing bull at either side of the sacred tree, may be of far later date, because it differs from all early linear-style cylinders in regard to the shape of the tree."--Porada, CANES, p. 75
Summary:
Bull-man and bull flanking tree.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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