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Masterworks From the Morgan: Near Eastern Seals
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 10:30am
Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave
New York, New York 10016 Get Directions
Pierpont Morgan took great interest in ancient Near Eastern seals, as is evident from his collection, dating 3500-330 B.C. This section of the reopening exhibition displays a number of the best examples of these objects, which are among the earliest known pictorial carvings used to communicate ideas. Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way. They are among the smallest pictorial objects ever produced--often just one inch in size--intricately detailed by sculptors who carved them with simple tools in semiprecious stones.

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