God with mace and deity with clasped hands

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
black serpentine
31 x 18 mm
Morgan Seal 466
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"Seals 463-466 have small figures forming secondary motifs beside the main scenes. All or part of the figures of these secondary motifs are reversed. Since this feature is especially common in the glyptic of the regions around Mesopotamia, it seems possible that these four seals are all peripheral products. This may account for the unusual occurrence of a god with fishes in 463, and of a god with a snake before him in 465, as well as for the rendering of the two principal figures in 466 so that they face in the same direction instead of toward each other." Porada, CANES, p. 54

Summary: 

"Figure posed like god with mace; deity with clasped hands -- In field: vessel above ball staff; scorpion above crook that rests on back of kneeling gazelle -- Secondary motif: above, bowlegged dwarf, nude female, crook between them; below (all figures reversed), similar female and dwarf, between them fly above crescent." Porada, CANES, p. 55

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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