Figures with oval headgear at either side of altar topped by jug

between 1650 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite
20 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 950
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"There [950 and 951] ... the figure with oval headgear is dressed in a mantle with fringed borders and a striped undergarment similar to those of the worshiper in 910 and of the king in the Mari mural. This may indicate that in 950 and 951 the figure with oval headgear portrays a king. The fact that the figure is duplicated could be due to the requirements of a balanced composition. There is support for such an assumption in Near Eastern art; for example, in a relief of Ashurnasirpal II the figure of the king is duplicated. The determination concerning the figures with oval headgear in 950 and 951 suggests that the personage at the left should be regarded as a king rather than a god, since his mantle is shaped like that worn by the figures in 950 and 951."--Porada, CANES, p. 126

Summary: 

Two figures with oval headgear, one at either side of altar topped by jug, above latter, star disk in crescent -- At right, female(?) figure holding falcon(?) above triple-ringed cup and Egyptian life sign -- Secondary motif: guilloche above goddess with Egyptian sacred ram's horns facing seated deity(?) with cup, scorpion between them.

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