between 2000 B.C. and 1800 B.C.
greenish-black serpentine
16.5 x 7 mm
Morgan Seal 314
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"In 313 and 314, the worshiper appears to address himself to the symbol placed in the center of the scene rather than to the figure at the other side of the symbol. The prominence given to a symbol or ritual object in such scenes may be significant, in view of the fact that standards and small, probably apotropaic objects were increasingly used by the seal cutters of this time." Porada, CANES, p. 37
Summary:
Center: tree between worshiper and figure with clasped hands.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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