Sun god stepping on kneeling human-headed bull and worshiper with kid

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite
26 x 15.5 mm
Morgan Seal 395
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

Cylinder chipped.
"On most of the best-executed seals of this group the god faces a worshiper carrying a kid, behind whom stands a suppliant goddess (394, 395, 397-400)... In 395 a god with lion scimitar faces a priest with pail and sprinkler, The god with lion scimitar has been identified with the god of the nether world, Nergal (p. 47). Possibly, therefore, this seal pictures the sun god in juxtaposition to the god of the nether world. A similar juxtaposition of these two deities is found in Louvre A. 362, in which the god of the nether world is even more surely identified by his bull's ears."--Porada, CANES, p. 49

Summary: 

Suppliant goddess and worshiper carrying kid before sun god, who steps on kneeling human-headed bull -- Priest with pail and sprinkler on platform, facing god who holds lion scimitar and leans on second scimitar, lion club before him -- In field: star disk in crescent.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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