between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
shell
39 x 24 mm
Morgan Seal 228
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
Cylinder damaged.
[Seals] 224-233, which are executed with varying degrees of care, all show the bull kneeling. Usually a seated goddess holds one end of a cord that seems to pass through the gate, while a male attendant, who is standing or kneeling or possibly floating in the air, holds the other end." Porada, CANES, p. 28
Summary:
Seated goddess, with star and crescent beside her in sky, raising hand toward one wing of gate that rests on kneeling bull before her -- Man on one knee touching second wing of gate and holding gate cord.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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