between 900 B.C. and 700 B.C.
black serpentine
31 x 13 mm
Morgan Seal 683
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 680-683 are smaller and show the nimbus of the deity by means of long hatches. They may be dated in the ninth or eight century B.C., since Berlin 658, a seal corresponding closely in subject and engraving with 681, was found in the uppermost layer in the excavation of some late Assyrian tombs at Ashur."--Porada, CANES, p. 81
Summary:
Worshiper before deity in nimbus, between them crescent above stylus -- Terminal: tree with winged sun disk above it.
Place:
Southern Mesopotamia.
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