Worshiper behind facing figures with oval headgear

between 1650 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite
23 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 952
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"There [950 and 951] ... the figure with oval headgear is dressed in a mantle with fringed borders and a striped undergarment similar to those of the worshiper in 910 and of the king in the Mari mural. This may indicate that in 950 and 951 the figure with oval headgear portrays a king. The fact that the figure is duplicated could be due to the requirements of a balanced composition. There is support for such an assumption in Near Eastern art; for example, in a relief of Ashurnasirpal II the figure of the king is duplicated. The determination concerning the figures with oval headgear in 950 and 951 suggests that the personage at the left should be regarded as a king rather than a god, since his mantle is shaped like that worn by the figures in 950 and 951 ... On this basis, figures wearing such a mantle together with oval headgear may tentatively be considered royal, as for example in 952 and 954."--Porada, CANES, p. 126

Summary: 

Worshiper behind two facing figures with oval headgear -- Between them, star disk, altar(?) -- Before worshiper, indefinable object -- Terminal: sitting griffin, guilloche, sitting lion, one above other.

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