between 600 and 400 B.C.
blue chalcedony ;
Morgan Seal 797
Description
1 stamp seal : blue chalcedony ; 21 x 17.5 x 12.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"...795-811 have been classed as Neo-Babylonian, because many seal impressions of corresponding style and subject have been found on Neo-Babylonian tablets of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. In these impressions a relatively uniform style perists, though the dates of most of the tablets reach well into Persian times (for example, Philadelphia 965-969), and Persian seal impressions also appear on them... A large number of Neo-Babylonian stamps exectued with careful modeling present a subject found also in the ritual scenes of modeled-style cylinders of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., namely, a worshiper standing before symbols (795a, 796-798)."--Porada, CANES, p. 96-98
Pyramidal seal with rounded top and slightly convex octagonal base.
Pyramidal seal with rounded top and slightly convex octagonal base.
Summary
Worshiper before stylus on altar -- Crescent in sky.
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