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Goddess with grain sprouting from shoulder, snake god, and altar with flames between them

between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 216
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 32 x 21 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"A number of Akkadian seals feature a god the lower part of whose body is that of a snake. In 216 this god faces a goddess of vegetation." Porada, CANES, p. 27
Summary
Deity with grain sprouting from shoulder seated opposite snake-god -- Between them, altar with flames, star in crescent above it -- Terminal: plant.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department