between 2500 B.C. and 2350 B.C.
lapis lazuli ;
Morgan Seal 121
Description
1 cylinder seal : lapis lazuli ; 13 x 7 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"The scene of 121 is less explicit [than 120]. That it is an offering scene becomes clear only when it is compared with a seal impression from Fara in which a seated figure, facing a worshiper, holds a plant over an altar; a spouted vessel is placed before a second figure seated opposite. The Fara impression obviously renders an offering scene rather than a banquet, and the theme of 121 may therefore be interpreted in the same sense, although the figures are differently arranged." Porada, CANES, p. 18
Summary
Seated figure holding plant -- Second seated figure, with attendant proffering cup and tube protruding from small vessel below.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department