Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king

between 1920 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
20 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 851
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 statue of a bull with a protuberance on its rump (847, 848, 851), ... the sun disk enclosing a cross instead of a star, and the small v-shaped designs often placed in the sky ... Ward notes that this seal is 'said to have been found in Antardos, Syria' (Morgan, p. 111). This small coastal town has been omitted from the map."--Porada, CANES, p. 107-109

Summary: 

Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king holding cup, with addition at left of second suppliant goddess -- In sky, v-shaped sign, cross disk -- Terminal: statue of bull with rump protuberance above kneeling horned animal.

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