between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
green jasper ;
Morgan Seal 505
Description
1 cylinder seal : green jasper ; 32 x 15 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"In 503-506 the figure is presented beside a bull and lightning fork, the symbols of the weather god." Porada, CANES, p. 56
Summary
"Suppliant goddess before kneeling bull carrying lightning fork, fish above latter -- Nude female facing two deities, first holding staff -- In field: mongoose above bowlegged dwarf; fly(?) above fish." Porada, CANES, p. 57-58
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department