between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
white marble ;
Morgan Seal 120
Description
1 cylinder seal : white marble ; 34 x 17 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Cylinder rubbed.
"The theme of 120 is identified as an offering scene by analogy with the clear representation of the same subject published by Frankfort, which shows a deity holding a plant and seated behind an altar piled with loaves, with a trussed duck on top of the pile... Seals 120 and 125 belong to the Third Early Dynastic period. In 120 this is indicated by the round modeling of the figures..." Porada, CANES, p. 18
"The theme of 120 is identified as an offering scene by analogy with the clear representation of the same subject published by Frankfort, which shows a deity holding a plant and seated behind an altar piled with loaves, with a trussed duck on top of the pile... Seals 120 and 125 belong to the Third Early Dynastic period. In 120 this is indicated by the round modeling of the figures..." Porada, CANES, p. 18
Summary
Figure in fleeced skirt following driver of horned animal toward altar heaped with loaves and topped with trussed duck -- Behind altar, seated deity(?) -- In sky, scorpion, star, crescent.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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