between 2000 B.C. and 1800 B.C.
black serpentine
19 x 9 mm
Morgan Seal 311
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Worship of deities, characterized as such by their horned miters, is portrayed in 308-312... The classification of this seal is not certain, because neither the theme nor the workmanship is sufficiently characteristic to permit of assigning it to a definite date between the Post-Akkad period and the end of the First Dynasty of Babylon." Porada, CANES, p. 37-39
Summary:
Seated deity facing worshiper.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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