Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds

ca. 4500–3500 BCE

Not on view

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

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Provenance

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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