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

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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

Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds, Black-green chlorite or steatite

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