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Suppliant goddess and worshiper before enthroned god or king with cup

between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 878
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 22.5 x 11 mm
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. ... Seal 878 presents a theme of southern Mesopotamia, the worship of an enthroned figure with a cup; yet it must be classified as Cappadocian because its impression reproduces the inscription in mirror writing, a circumstance denoted as a criterion of Cappadocian origin (p. 107). Moreover, the worshiper wears the cap with vertically striped brim that, as observed above, is characteristic of this group."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110
Summary
Suppliant goddess and worshiper before enthroned god or king with cup -- In sky, cross disk in crescent -- Terminal: inscription.
Classification
Department