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Goat fish held by fish-man

between 600 B.C. and 401 B.C.
yellow chert ;
Morgan Seal 788
Description
1 cylinder seal : yellow chert ; 20 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seal 788 shows two symbolic figures, a fish-man and a goat-fish, without a worshiper. While such symbolic figures frequently occur without worshipers on stamp seals, they are rarely found so on cylinders."--Porada, CANES, p. 95
Summary
Goat-fish held by fish-man -- Terminal: star and crescent above fish.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department