between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
greenish-black serpentine
19.5 x 17 mm
Morgan Seal 18
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"18 shows an Uruk feature in the antelope [sic] head placed in the field... the animal bodies are rendered almost exclusively by means of larger and smaller drillings in distinctive Jamdat Nasr manner." Porada, CANES, p. 5
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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