between 800 B.C. and 600 B.C.
yellow marble
37 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 644
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"In contrast to 640 and 641, in which the two figures of the king or two genii flank the tree in kneeling posture, the motifs of 642-645 depict the usual type of Assyrian worshiper, who stands upright. It seems unlikely that 642 and 643, in each of which there is a palmette executed as carefully as in 640, are earlier than 644 and 645, which present a more cursory rendering of the tree."--Porada, CANES, p. 76
Summary:
Tree flanked by two worshipers, each grasping one of two streams falling from winged sun disk above tree -- Terminal: star above plant with two shoots.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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