between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
white chalcedony
30 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 727
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Most of the seals of this style [cut-style]... date from the first millennium. They can be divided into an earlier group, dated approximately in the ninth or eighth century B.C. (724-733), and a later, belonging probably to the seventh and sixth centuries (734-746)."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Summary:
Two kneeling worshipers, with hands extended, one at either side of tree with winged sun disk above it -- Terminal: crescent, two horizontals, rhomb, one above other.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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