between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
15 x 8 mm
Morgan Seal 918
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Seals 918 and 919 offer as a criterion for dating the standard coposed of a male and female head (in 919 topped by a bird) that occurs in the Syro-Cappadocian seal 903 and in an impression on a cappadocian tablet, as well as on a number of seals of the first Syrian group, but not in later glyptic."--Porada, CANES, p. 120
Summary:
God in ascending posture facing standard composed of female and male head -- Female worshiper facing god with spiked helmet, between them sun disk in crescent above ball staff -- Terminal: mace standard.
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