Bearded hero with daggers and two ibexes
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between 1300 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
red-and-gray jasper
29 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 597
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Palm trees marked with volutes are found in 596 and 597. This use of volutes recalls Mitannian designs, though in the latter the tree as a whole always conveys an impression of artificiality, whereas on the Middle Assyrian seals it has the appearance of a natural tree merely ornamented with metal bands." Porada, CANES, p. 69
Summary:
Bearded hero (full face), dagger in each hand, standing between two ibexes that jump away from him, each toward tree that is flanked by them as scene repeats.
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Southern Mesopotamia.
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