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Fallen stag attacked by griffin

between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
carnelian ;
Morgan Seal 724
Description
1 cylinder seal : carnelian ; 31 x 14 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Most of the seals of this style [cut-style]... date from the first millennium. They can be divided into an earlier group, dated approximately in the ninth or eighth century B.C. (724-733), and a later, belonging probably to the seventh and sixth centuries (734-746)... Certain deviations from Assyrian linear-style representations, however, indicate that the arly cut-style seals were made not by Assyrian but by Babylonian engravers.... Furthermore, there is not known parallel in contemporary Assyrian art for the stag assailed by a griffin, as in 724."--Porada, CANES, p. 87
Summary
Fallen stag attacked by griffin -- In field, crescent, star.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department