Bull walking
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between 499 and 400 B.C.
brownish chalcedony
25 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 837
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 837 recalls Greek gems of the fifth century in its exquisite engraving and spacious background. It can be dated in that period by analogy with a seal impression on a tablet of the time of Darius and Xerxes (Philadelphia 833)."--Porada, CANES, p. 104
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Bull walking.
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