between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
banded agate
25 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 723
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 723 is so cursorily engraved that it cannot be precisely classified, though the angular shapes of the figures recall late cut-style seals like 741-746 below."--Porada, CANES, p. 87
Summary:
Plant -- Approaching lion attacked by hero -- Crescent in sky -- Two stars in field.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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