Female and male attendants with banqueters

between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine
36 x 21 mm
Morgan Seal 251
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"Banquet scenes, which occur so frequently on Early Dynastic seals, are found on only a few Akkad cylinders ... The arrangement of ... [Seal 251's] figures corresponds with that in the banquet scenes. However, the seated persons seem to be holding sticks or bands rather than drinking tubes." Porada, CANES, p. 30-31

Summary: 

Seated man with stick(?), facing male attendant; vertical line -- Female attendant facing seated woman holding stick(?) -- Terminal: gatepost.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Period: 
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