between 1350 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
dark-green jasper
20 x 11 mm
Morgan Seal 1048
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"The winged sun disk on a stool seen in 1047 appears in two other Mitannian seals, though it is not found in any uzi impressions. However, many of these impressions, such as Nuzi 840, show the wingless disk on a pole as in 1048."--Porada, CANES, p. 146
Summary:
Sun-disk standard, between griffin and winged antelope -- Indeterminate recumbent animal -- Fish at each side of standard -- In field: nine globes; guilloche.
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