Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sacred tree and worshiper

between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C.
white chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 709
Description
1 cylinder seal : white chalcedony ; 20 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Summary
Tree on knoll with winged sun disk above it; worshiper facing tree; before worshiper, seven globes -- In field, star and crescent above table spread with cloth, rhomb and fish beside it.
Classification
Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department