between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 862
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 11 mm diameter
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"One or more worshipers standing with or without interceding deities before a god constitute the most frequent subject in the present group. This theme is common in Old Babylonian glyptic. Moreover, a number of the gods represented here are characterized by the same emblems as those in Old Babylonian cylinders. In 862-864 and in 884 (upper register), the deity holds the saw of the sun god ... the seals of the present group can be classified as provincial Babylonian and distinguished from seals of southern Mesopotamia on the basis of certain details in the rendering of the figures, especially their garments. The latter often have shoulder straps converging at the waist, like the robe of the worshiper in 862 and that of the god in 863.. Porada, CANES, p. 109-110
Lower part of the cylinder broken off.
Lower part of the cylinder broken off.
Summary
Statue of bull with rump protuberance on altar behind worshiper who faces god with saw followed by suppliant goddess -- In sky, star disk in crescent, vessel, bird (before bull statue).
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