Winged lion-griffin attacked by hero with curved sword
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between 1200 B.C. and 1000 B.C.
carnelian
32 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 607
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"In 607 and 608, both of which picture a bull calf lying between two contestants, the composition is more formal. The scheme used here--that of two fighting figures with a third between them--was preserved in Neo-Babylonian seals of the first millennium... but discarded by Neo-Assyrian seal cutters."--Porada, CANES, p. 70
Summary:
Winged lion-griffin attacked by hero with curved sword -- Kneeling calf under monster.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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