ca. 2400 B.C.
black serpentine
23 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 91
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 91, which like 89 shows a nude bald hero in the center of the group, should probably be assigned to the same time [i.e. a little earlier than the reign of Lugalanda in Lagash]. Porada, CANES, p. 13
Summary:
Center: nude hero grasping two horned animals each attacked by lion -- Hero with mace(?)
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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