between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 444
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 23 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
"God with mace facing suppliant goddess -- Between god and goddess, star disk in crescent above small nude female -- Terminal (all figures reversed): small male figure above bend of crook, which is beside bowlegged dwarf, mongoose above latter." Porada, CANES, p. 53
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department