between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
milky chalcedony
41 x 17 mm
Morgan Seal 731
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)... Seals 731 and 732 present variations of these themes. In 731 only one worshiper is represented; in 732 a bird and an ibex replace the worshipers beside the tree."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Summary:
Kneeling worshiper, with hand extended toward tree with winged sun disk above it -- Terminal: crescent, seven globes, four-pointed star, fish, one above other.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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