between 1500 B.C. and 1400 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 975
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 21 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"In 975 a similar figure appears as the object of worship. One of the worshipers has a bulbous skull, somewhat as in the rendering of the head of a small nude figure in Newell 297. Frankfort has suggested that this rendering may be due to the influence of the art associated with Akhenaten, which would indicate a dating in the fourteenth century B.C. for 975."--Porada, CANES, p. 131
Summary
Male figure facing king or god and female figure -- In field: star above bird(?); triple-ringed vase above larger vase -- Secondary motif: two birds, one at each side of vase, guilloche, figure on one knee before bull, one above other.
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