between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
marble
19 mm
Morgan Seal 6
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
Seal fragment.
"Its design seems to depict a detached animal head and leg such as occur in the designs of the Uruk period. ... what remains of the engraving manifests more careful work than is usually found in the designs of the Jamdat Nasr period." Porada, CANES, p. 3
Summary:
Horn and detached leg above leg of animal (body broken off); ibex head above back of recumbent bull.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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