SealsMesopotamian3rd millennium BCE
Cylinder Seal: Banquet and Animals
c. 2600-2334 BCE
Description
Upper register: a pair of seated figures raising cups; the other pair drinking through tubes. Lower register: calf, goat and another quadruped walking toward bush.
Dimensions
actual: 3.1 x 2.9 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Marcopoli collection, Aleppo, (by 1984). McLendon collection, (by 1993), sold; [through Christie's, New York, June 14, 1993, lot 108], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.
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