between 2000 B.C. and 1800 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 311
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 19 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Worship of deities, characterized as such by their horned miters, is portrayed in 308-312... The classification of this seal is not certain, because neither the theme nor the workmanship is sufficiently characteristic to permit of assigning it to a definite date between the Post-Akkad period and the end of the First Dynasty of Babylon." Porada, CANES, p. 37-39
Summary
Seated deity facing worshiper.
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Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department