between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
22 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 870
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"One or more worshipers standing with or without interceding deities before a god constitute the most frequent subject in the present group. This theme is common in Old Babylonian glyptic. Moreover, a number of the gods represented here are characterized by the same emblems as those in Old Babylonian cylinders. ... In addition to portraying gods that may be referred to Old Babylonian prototypes, the seals of this group depict gods for whom no exact parallels exist in Old Babylonian designs; among these are the weather god brandishing a weapon (867-871, 881) ..."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110
Summary:
Bull-man (in frontal view) -- Suppliant goddess and worshiper before god in ascending posture who holds lightning fork and unidentifiable weapon.
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