Seal in the shape of a bovid Three drawings of animals on reverse. Limestone. Sumerian art, Djemdet-Nasr period (3200 - 2800 B.C.). Length: 3.5 cm Provenance: From a copy of the collectors' notes, acquired from Koutoulakis in August 1953. Publication: DANMAVILLE, Jenny, "La Collection Thierry", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 54, reproduced fig. 3. Indicated as "purchased from a Paris antique dealer as coming from Baghdad". Collection Nicole et Jean-Michel Thierry - lots 1 to 141.