God with a crook stepping on kneeling gazelle

between 1894 B.C. and 1595 B.C.
hematite
15 x 8.5 mm
Morgan Seal 519
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"The figure of a god holding a crook, and often shown stepping upon a kneeling gazelle, has been identified by Frankfort as that of the god Amurru. The name of this god occurs frequently in the inscriptions of Old Babylonian seals; occasionally it is found on seals depicting the god with a crook (518, 520, 523). While the inscription of a seal rarely serves to identify the god depicted on it, the group here described [i.e. Seals 517-524] presents a sufficient number of instances in which figure and inscription appear together to suggest such an identification. In 517, 518, 523 the god wears the usual horned miter of deity. In 519 his headgear looks like a round cap..." Porada, CANES, p. 59

Summary: 

Bull-man and nude bearded hero wrestling -- Suppliant goddess before god with crook who places foot on kneeling gazelle -- In field: priest with pail and sprinkler, above fly; small man on one knee; vessel above ball staff; crescent.

Place: 
Southern Mesopotamia.
Classification: 
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