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

Unknown

ca. 4500–3500 BCE · Black-green chlorite or steatite · Ancient Near Eastern Art

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

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 4500–3500 BCE

Medium

Black-green chlorite or steatite

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Credit line

Purchase, 1893