between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
23 x 12 mm
Morgan Seal 928
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"The suppliant goddess of 926, 927, 931 is an example [of figures derived from the Old Babylonian repertory], though in 927 and 931 she wears the turban-like headgear seen in 878, which is a Cappadocian seal. The goddess holding a flowing vase in 928 recalls Old Babylonian representations of the water god like that in Berlin 398, notwithstanding the fact that in this Syrian rendering the sex of the deity has changed."--Porada, CANES, p. 122
Summary:
Female worshiper before goddess who holds vase containing plant and emitting streams that flow to vase below -- Behind goddess, male worshiper -- Terminal: antelope attacked by bearded sphinx above guilloche with ibex head and sitting lion beneath it.
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