between 700 B.C. and 600 B.C.
greenish-black serpentine
30 x 14 mm
Morgan Seal 649
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seal 649 is probably of even later origin, because the tree is rendered as on the modeled-style cylinders 772 and 774. The robes of the worshipers have rows of horizontal fringes like those on a stele from Susa; this suggests that 649 may have originated in that region."--Porada, CANES, p. 77
Summary:
Tree with winged sun disk above it, flanked by two worshipers -- Beside central tree, indefinable design and small tree -- Terminal: large tree.
Place:
Iran Susa.
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