between 900 B.C. and 600 B.C.
brown limestone
31 x 15 mm
Morgan Seal 651
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"In 651 a kneeling bull appears below the sun disk instead of the usual sacred tree. The worshiper at the right holds one of the streams of the sun disk, while the worshiper at the left raises his cup for a libation; this constitutes a ritual scene unparalleled elsewhere."--Porada, CANES, p. 78
Summary:
Two worshipers flanking winged sun disk over kneeling bull, first worshiper holding cup, second grasping stream that falls from sun disk -- In field, crescent, two wedges -- Terminal: star above stylus.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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