between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
pinkish marble
22 x 16 mm
Morgan Seal 126
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"The principal mythological subject in the Second and Third Early Dynastic periods is a god steering a boat that moves of its own accord (126-129). This is Frankfort's interpretation of the boat, which has a human prow manipulating a punting pole." Porada, CANES, p. 18-19
Summary:
Feline, with plow and cup above it, walking before boat propelled by human prow and by deity seated in its waist -- Crescent above feline-headed stern of boat, small bird-man with stick behind.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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