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Worshiper before scorpion-man

between 600 and 400 B.C.
lapis lazuli ;
Morgan Seal 800
Description
1 stamp seal : lapis lazuli ; 25 x 20 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 executed 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) ... The symbols most often used are the stylus of Nabu and the spade of Marduk ... A scorpion-man replaces the symbols in 800, as in the cylinder seal 783."--Porada, CANES, p. 96-98
Conical seal with rounded top and slightly convex circular base.
Summary
Worshiper before scorpion-man -- Crescent in sky.
Classification
Department