Contest frieze with heros, bull, mouflon, and lion
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between 2700 B.C. and 2500 B.C.
white marble
28 x 24 mm
Morgan Seal 52
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"The heros in the contests often, as in 52, wear flat caps as well as skirts tucked up above the knee to provide freedom of movement. The fact that in a contemporaneous limestone inlay from Kish a king is similarly attired shows that such caps and skirts were characteristic of the Second Early Dynastic period." . Porada, CANES, p. 9-10
Summary:
Hero grasping bull and mouflon -- Latter menaced by lion which is attacked by second hero with dagger.
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Southern Mesopotamia.
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