between 900 B.C. and 701 B.C.
brown chert ;
Morgan Seal 726
Description
1 cylinder seal : brown chert ; 47 x 17 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Most of the seals of this style [cut-style]... date from the first millennium. They can be divided into an earlier group, dated approximately in the ninth or eighth century B.C. (724-733), and a later, belonging probably to the seventh and sixth centuries (734-746)... Certain deviations from Assyrian linear-style representations, however, indicate that the early cut-style seals were made not by Assyrian but by Babylonain engravers.... In the single cut-style example in which two figures flanking the tree stand upright (726), one wears the Kassite feather crown of the Babylonian gods."--Porada, CANES, p. 88
Cylinder damaged.
Cylinder damaged.
Summary
God and worshiper grasping streams that fall from winged sun disk above tree; above worshiper, seven globes -- Terminal: star, crescent, two indeterminable cuneiform signs, one above other."
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department