between 550 B.C. and 450 B.C.
banded agate
26 x 8(10) mm
Morgan Seal 817
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 817 and 818 feature the winged sun disk that plays such a large role in Assyrian designs. However, the sphinxes supporting the disk in 817, and the birds beow the disk in 818, have not previously appeared in these positions. The god in a crescent disk, occurring in both 817 and 818, likewise appears for the first time in the Achaemenian period."--Porada, CANES, p. 103
Summary:
Two crowned sphinxes supporting winged sun disk above crescent disk enclosing crowned god.
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