between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
grey-and-pink chert ;
Morgan Seal 713
Description
1 cylinder seal : grey-and-pink chert ; 28 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Worshiper before kneeling winged bull that is attacked by lion -- In upper field: star, rhomb, fish, one above other; winged sun disk; crescent above bull's head; eight globes, scorpion, goat's head, one above other.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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