Truncated amygdaloid (rhomboid ?) seal

Unknown Artist

ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Truncated amygdaloid (rhomboid ?) seal by Unknown Artist

Medium

Marble, white with pink and black veins

Dimensions

9/16 × 1 1/16 × 1 7/8 in. (1.5 × 2.7 × 4.7 cm)

Classification

Stone-Stamp Seals

Period

Jemdet Nasr

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941

Accession Number

41.160.224

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