between 600 B.C. and 401 B.C.
yellow chert
20 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 788
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.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
Period:
Catalog link:
Classification:
Department: