between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
lapis lazuli ;
Morgan Seal 247
Description
1 cylinder seal : lapis lazuli ; 16.5 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Scenes showing worshipers standing before a deity without an intermediary (245-247) are rare in this period and later." Porada, CANES, p. 30
Summary
Female worshiper with pail following second woman, who pours libation over altar before enthroned god -- Crescent in sky -- Terminal: tree.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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