between 1350 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
hematite
18 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 996
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 996 closely resembles Newell 319 in the fact that it represents an egyptianized goddess facing an enthroned deity, in its rendering of the throne of that deity, and in the manner in which its guilloche is engraved. These similarities suggest that 996 may have been made in the same workshop as Newell 319, even though the enthroned figure is rendered like an Old Babylonian deity."--Porada, CANES, p. 136
Summary:
Goddess wearing horns of Egyptian sacred ram (?), holding censer and fan before enthroned deity on platform who holds snake and staff -- Below censer, bird's head(?) -- Crescent in sky -- Terminal (one above other): bird with spread wings, wearing double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, with blossom in each claw; guilloche; leaping bull.
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