between 1600 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 988
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 29 x 16.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seal 988 depicts a suppliant goddess before a figure holding a crook or lotus blossom, as in 912 of the first Syrian group."--Porada, CANES, p. 134
Cylinder damaged.
Cylinder damaged.
Summary
Enthroned deity holding lotus blossom(?) over triple-ringed cup and facing suppliant goddess -- At knee of deity, bird -- Star and indefinable design in sky -- Secondary motif: two facing figures, each with triple-ringed cup, mongoose and third triple-ringed cup between them -- All on platform roofing five walking figures with four vases, two wedgelike incisions, one triple-ringed cup interspersed.
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