between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
20 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 907
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"The cylinders of this group [900-908] contain a number of features distinctive of Cappadocian and of Syrian glyptic, besides some Mesopotamian elements, though the latter are less prominent here than in the Old Assyrian and in the provincial Babylonian group. ... The figure holding ball staff in 907 has parallels only in contemporary Cappadocian glyptic and in an Mitannian impression of later date (Nuzi 625)."--Porada, CANES, p. 114
Summary:
Goddess, holding cup, under canopy on kneeling bull, with bird above cup, animal head below it -- Facing her, male figure with mace -- Ball staff above vessel -- Worshiper holding ball staff before enthroned god (full face) with cup, hare before him.
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