between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine
27 x 15.5 mm
Morgan Seal 231
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
[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 deity holding cord of winged gate that rests on back of kneeling bull -- At right, attendant holding cord of gate(?).
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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