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Mouflon above standing lion and figure touching lion's mouth

between 1350 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
black-and-grey limonite ;
Morgan Seal 1039
Description
1 cylinder seal : black-and-grey limonite ; 16 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seal 1039 has been included in this group because its figures, like those in 1038, are rendered more or less as rectangular forms topped by globes. A contest with animals may be depicted here, even though the figures seem completely static."--Porada, CANES, p. 144
Summary
Mouflon above standing lion -- Figure touching(?) lion's mouth and facing figure that holds gazelle by hind leg -- To left figure with hand raised toward mouflon.
Classification
Department