between 1200 B.C. and 1100 B.C.
shell ;
Morgan Seal 1003
Description
1 cylinder seal : shell ; 18.5 x 8.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Scarabs made during the Hyksos period in Palestine are marked by strong outlines filled with hatching or crosshatching. This style appears also in a few of the cylinders found in Palestinian excavations... Though 1003 may be a crude example of the same style of engraving, it is characterized principally by its material, which is either bone or ivory; both of these were occasionally used for Palestinian scarabs but never for Syrian cylinders."--Porada, CANES, p. 137
Summary
Human figure(?) and two Egyptian life signs (one reversed), each in panel.
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