Suppliant goddess and worshiper before deity with cup seated on kneeling horned animal

between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
24 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 879
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. ... Seal 879 is included here because its subject is, as in 878, the worship of an enthroned figure with a cup. However, the animal throne surrounded by animals may be a specifically Anatolian motif, for it appears again in 894, which belongs to the Anatolian group."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110

Summary: 

Suppliant goddess and worshiper before deity with cup seated on kneeling horned animal over two crouching lions -- Before deity, kneeling stag, mongoose, fish(?), one above other -- Behind deity, crouching lion above small figure with cup -- Before suppliant goddess, star above ball staff.

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