between 2350 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine
24 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 240
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 240, which cannot be related to any specific mythological concept, seems to depict a deity in a boat, raising a cup." Porada, CANES, p. 29
Summary:
Boat containing seated deity(?), standing attendant, nude man rowing -- Crescent in sky.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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