between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble
23 x 11.5 mm
Morgan Seal 122
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 122 is too badly preserved to permit of comment on the relation between its two figures. The motif could be regarded as either an offering scene or a shortened banquet scene." Porada, CANES, p. 18
Summary:
Attendant or worshiper before seated figure -- Lizard and forepart of animal over scorpion.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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