Contest frieze with leopard, horned animal, lions, bull, and bull-man
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between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble
41 x 25 mm
Morgan Seal 75
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 74-77, which show a treatment of the frieze similar to that in 73, may be assigned to the same time." Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary:
Leopard attacking horned animal that is assailed by one of two crossed lions, second of which attacks bull held by bull-man -- Between arms of latter, small feline head -- Terminal: horizontals with scorpion above and two small crossed animals below.
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Southern Mesopotamia.
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