Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king

between 1920 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
18 x 9 mm
Morgan Seal 849
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"The first group [of Cappadocian seals] is called Old Assyrian, because seals showing a similar deep, angular engraving have been found at Ashur (Berlin 505, 508) ... Many seals in this group depict the presentation of a worshiper by an interceding goddess to an enthroned figure holding a cup (844-851). This theme, which derives from the glyptic of the Third Dynasty of Ur, was perpetuated in Isin-Larsa and early Old Babylonian cylinders. However, several features differentiate the Old Assyrian renderings from these contemporaneous south-Mesopotamian representations. Such features are ... the weather god shouldering a weapon (849, 850), ... the sun disk enclosing a cross instead of a star, and the small v-shaped designs often placed in the sky."--Porada, CANES, p. 107-108

Summary: 

Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king holding cup, with addition at left of god holding weapon, trident, and rein of kneeling bull on which he stands -- In sky, v-shapd sign, cross disk in crescent.

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