between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
17.5 x 9 mm
Morgan Seal 926
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Most of the pieces of the present group display the subsidiary design as a separate motif comprising an upper and a lower register divided by a horizontal guilloche (926, 928-930)."--Porada, CANES, p. 120
Summary:
Suppliant goddess before figure with scimitar -- Woman or goddess who reaches into upper register of secondary motif, holding cup under monkey squatted beside griffin over guilloche above two facing seated lions.
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