between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite
25 x 12.5 mm
Morgan Seal 509
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"In Old Babylonian representations the weather god, Adad, is usually shown standing on a bull and holding a lightning fork; often he also holds the bull's rein. This portrayal is probably related to the somewhat similar representation in the glyptic of the Assyrian merchant colonies in Anatolia... 509, 510, 512, 514 may be of other than Babylonian origin. Seal 509 resembles a seal showing worshipers clad in garments like those of figures in the seals of the Assyrian merchant colonies in Anatolia." Porada, CANES, p. 58
Summary:
Lion attacked by bull-man -- Worshiper before weather god (bull's rein missing) -- Female(?) deity.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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