between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
milky chalcedony
35 x 16 mm
Morgan Seal 725
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Most of the seals of this style [cut-style]... date from the first millennium. They can be divided into an earlier group, dated approximately in the ninth or eighth century B.C. (724-733), and a later, belonging probably to the seventh and sixth centuries (734-746)... Certain deviations from Assyrian linear-style representations, however, indicate that the early cut-style seals were made not by Assyrian but by Babylonain engravers. In 725, the archer wears a horned miter; in linear-style seals, on the other hand, this figure is bareheaded."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Summary:
Archer on one knee, attacking griffin that stands over plant -- In field, rhomb, two pairs of wedges, fish -- In sky, winged sun disk, seven globes, crescent, star.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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