between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
white-and-brownish chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 733
Description
1 cylinder seal : white-and-brownish chalcedony ; 26 x 10 (12) 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)... Seal 733 shows two bird-men facing, as in the linear-style seal Berlin 710."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Summary
Two bird-men facing, rhomb between them -- Terminal: crescent above seven drillings, star.
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