between 700 and 550 B.C.
dull carnelian
20 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 813
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 813 may likewise be classified as Elamite, since its subject--a kneeling archer aiming at a mouflon--is not found in Achaemenian representations. Walters 95, which presents the same subject, has an Elamite inscription and shows the archer in the same attire as the horseman in 812. Seal 814 offers a coarsened rendering of the theme of 813 and may be similarly classified."--Porada, CANES, p. 102
Summary:
Archer on one knee, aiming at mouflon that leaps toward tree -- Star in lower field.
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