between 3400 B.C. and 3000 B.C.
greenish-black serpentine
23 x 23 mm
Morgan Seal 11
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 11-14 present only squatting pigtailed figures with pots, in various degrees of simplification, a tendency further manifested in 15 by the omission of the pots." Porada, CANES, p. 5
Summary:
"Seven squatting figures with pots, six of them paired vertically; between second and third pairs, seventh, larger figure, indeterminate object above it." Porada, CANES, p.5
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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