between 1300 B.C. and 1155 B.C.
white marble
35 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 591
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 590 and 591 are engraved with a linear technique like that appearing in seals discovered at Warka and Babylon in Kassite layers of about 1300 B.C. or earlier (Berlin 561, 563). This technique appears to have been used very rarely in contemporaneous Assyrian cylinders, although it became the basis of the linear style of the Assyrians in the ninth and eighth centuries." Porada, CANES, p. 66
Summary:
Center: sacred tree between bull and lion-griffin, both rampant, bird below each -- In field: six-pointed rosette above rhomb; five-pointed rosette -- Borders of crosshatched triangles.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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