between 900 B.C. and 600 B.C.
black serpentine
45 x 17.5 mm
Morgan Seal 611
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 611 is also of large size, has a similar [to 610] chevron border, and hence may be dated in the same time. However, it presents a more usual treatment of its subject than 610, except for the fact that a genius wields the bow and arrow."--Porada, CANES, p. 73
Cylinder rubbed.
Summary:
Sphinx standing over plant and assailed with bow and arrow by genius on one knee -- In sky: crescent; three wedges (two behind sphinx, one before archer) -- Rhomb on ground -- Chevron borders.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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