Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds
This Ubaid seal is typically decorated with stylized animals not entirely reduced to geometric forms, a development from earlier stamps engraved with simple linear patterns. Two long-horned quadrupeds stand facing left. The seal has a tanged extension that thickens at the top into a perforated loop
Artwork Details
- Title: Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds
- Period: Late Ubaid–Middle Gawra
- Date: ca. 4500–3500 BCE
- Geography: Northern Mesopotamia
- Medium: Black-green chlorite or steatite
- Dimensions: Seal Face: 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Height: 0.54
String Hole: 0.2 - Credit Line: Purchase, 1893
- Object Number: 93.17.122
- Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art
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