between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
17 x 8 mm
Morgan Seal 935
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 935 shows a hero wearing a helmet with plumed crest; this is a figure encounterd in Syro-Cappadocian designs, which would indicate an early date for the seal."--Porada, CANES, p. 123
Summary:
Undulating striped band dividing design into four themes: in first, three human heads, one animal head, two hands, all reversed -- In second: hero with plumed helmet, holding weapon -- In third, lion above gazelle, both reversed -- In fourth: hare over monkey beside column of inverted crescents above guilloche.
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