between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
19 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 919
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 918 and 919 offer as a criterion for dating the standard coposed of a male and female head (in 919 topped by a bird) that occurs in the Syro-Cappadocian seal 903 and in an impression on a cappadocian tablet, as well as on a number of seals of the first Syrian group, but not in later glyptic."--Porada, CANES, p. 120
Cylinder chipped.
Summary:
Worshiper facing female figure with bird(?) perched on one hand, between them standard composed of female and male head mounted on crouching lion and topped with bird -- In sky, cross disk in crescent, star, animal head -- Terminal: antelope and griffin over guilloche -- Below latter, two seated lions, facing human head between them.
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