between ca. 2149 and 2113 B.C.
black serpentine
26 mm
Morgan Seal 256
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
Cylinder fragment.
"Seals 254-261 are distinguished by their deeply incised engraving, which is most obvious in the human faces. The subjects of these seals are all derived from Akkad designs depicting worship of deities. Ritual scenes with female participants, who are undifferentiated except by their actions (255-259), are more numerous than ritual scenes in which the principal figure is distinguished as a deity by being rendered with a horned miter (254, 260, 261)."--Porada, CANES, p. 31-32
Summary:
Enthroned female personage, with star in sky before her, raising cup(?) with help of female attendant; arm of obliterated third figure -- Terminal: tree.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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