Scorpion and plant
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between 3100 B.C. and 2900 B.C.
white marble
36.5 x 21 mm
Morgan Seal 31
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"... a pot of the Jamdat Nasr period shows a scorpion in a panel and the effect is much the same as that produced by the design of seal 31."--Porada, CANES, p. 6-7
Summary:
Scorpion -- Plant.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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