Suppliant goddess and worshiper before god with ring and nude bearded hero

between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
18 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 865
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 865, the god holds a ring as in the Old Babylonian cylinders 369, 392, 393 ... However, 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 vertical lines on the brim of the worshiper's cap, as in 864, 865, and other seals of this group."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110

Summary: 

Suppliant goddess and worshiper before god with ring in ascending posture, nude bearded hero behind him -- In field: star; vessel above ball staff; sun disk in crescent above fly; five globes.

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