between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 884
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 22 x 10 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. ... Seals 880-884 present figures deriving from the Old Babylonian contest frieze ... In 881-883 the theme of contest between a lion and a man appears together with a worshiping scene ... In the lower register of 884, a parallel contest group is augmented by a second figure attacking the lion."--Porada, CANES, p. 109-110
Summary
Above: suppliant goddess following worshiper carrying kid before god with saw in ascending posture -- Worshiper before enthroned deity with cup -- Below: figure with one hand upraised -- Two goats flanking tree(?) -- Figure grasping tail of lion manacing man on one knee.
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