between 550 B.C. and 450 B.C.
basalt
29 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 826
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 826-829 differ from 819-825 in that the composition of their scenes is freer, although the king remains the principal figure. The kicking lion of 826 and 828 has no Assyrian parallel but corresponds with a similar animal in a relief from the palace of Darius at Persepolis."--Porada, CANES, p. 103
Summary:
King with dagger attacking lion -- Termianl: bird on tip of pine tree.
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