between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 889
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 15 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 885-891 present a completely non-Babylonian motif, worship of an animal ... and in 888-891 the worship enters on the statue of a bull."--Porada, CANES, p. 110
Cylinder chipped.
Cylinder chipped.
Summary
Three worshipers beofre statue of bull with rump protuberance mounted on platform -- Terminal: snake.
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