between 2900 B.C. and 2400 B.C.
black serpentine
17.5 x 7.5 mm
Morgan Seal 103
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Animals not engaged in contest but walking peacefully in a row do not often appear as the principal theme in Early Dynastic cylinders, although they are frequently so represented in the lower registers of the seal designs. Such rows may be survivals of the Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods... Seal 103, in which the execution is linear, should be dated in the beginning of the Third or perhaps even in the Second Early Dynastic period." Porada, CANES, p. 15
Summary:
Bird, goat, sheep.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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