Seated figure drinking through tube from vessel on stand

between 2900 B.C. and 2400 B.C.
black steatite
19 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 1092
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"The second of these groups (1091-1094) shows Cappadocian motifs, in a procession of figures toward an animal (1092) and in a bull statue on an alter (1094). Their engraving, though deep, as in the Old Assyrian group, nevertheless produces more rounded forms than are found in such Cappadocian seals. Moreover, the oval caps of the figures seem to be rather distinctive of the seals here assembled; unlike the oval caps characteristic of Cappadocian seals, they are neither striated nor brimmed. The motif of a figure drinking through a tube from a vessel,though occasionally found in Cappadocian seals (894), seems to be far more popular in the present group."--Porada, CANES, p. 153

Summary: 

Seated figure drinking through tube from vessel on stand, bird above -- Two worshipers before kneeling horned animal with scorpion and crescent above it, star under bend of its neck.

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