God with mace facing deity

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite
29 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 465
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

Damaged cylinder.
"Seals 463-466 have small figures forming secondary motifs beside the main scenes. All or part of the figures of these secondary motifs are reversed. Since this feature is especially common in the glyptic of the regions around Mesopotamia, it seems possible that these four seals are all peripheral products. This may account for the unusual occurrence of a god with fishes in 463, and of a god with a snake before him in 465, as well as for the rendering of the two principal figures in 466 so that they face in the same direction instead of toward each other." Porada, CANES, p. 54

Summary: 

"God with mace facing deity, between them star disk in crescent, snake, goat-fish -- Secondary motif: above (all figures reversed), enthroned deity with staff(?) between two figures (one partly obliterated), each on one knee; below, vessel above ball staff, bowlegged dwarf, two facing male figures holding sprinkler between them (one figure partly obliterated)." Porada, CANES, p. 55

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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