between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine
30 x 21 mm
Morgan Seal 249
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Banquet scenes, which occur so frequently on Early Dynastic seals, are found on only a few Akkad cylinders. In the latter the banqueting figures are occasionally identified as deities by their horned miters (248, 249), whereas in the earlier renderings the character of the figures remains undetermined." Porada, CANES, p. 30
Summary:
Center: God and goddess(?) drinking through tubes from vessel between them -- Two attendants at each side -- Terminal: plant.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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