between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 422
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 23 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
"God with mace before sun god; behind latter, goddess and priest with pail and sprinkler -- In field: porcupine above lion-headed fish-monster (before sun god); fly(?); three drillings, fox (before priest) -- Secondary motif: above, sitting goat assailed by lion; below, male figure before nude female." Porada, CANES, p.51
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
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