Nude bearded hero with streams, goddess and worshiper before god with saw

between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
19 x 12.5 mm
Morgan Seal 864
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"One or more worshipers standing with or without interceding deities before a god constitute the most frequent subject in the present group. This theme is common in Old Babylonian glyptic. Moreover, a number of the gods represented here are characterized by the same emblems as those in Old Babylonian cylinders. In 862-864 and in 884 (upper register), the deity holds the saw of the sun god ... the seals of the present group can be classified as provincial Babylonian and distinguished from seals of southern Mesopotamia on the basis of certain details in the rendering of the figures, especially their garments ... characteristic are the verticl lines on the brim of the worshiper's cap, as in 864, 865, and other seals of this group."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110
Lower edge of cylinder chipped.

Summary: 

Nude bearded hero with streams -- Goddess and worshiper before god with saw in ascending posture, five globes over design of his head and breast; before goddess, indefinable design; before god, bird -- In sky, star, two v-shaped signs.

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