between 1500 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 1011
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 22 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 1011 and 1012 present the figure of a weather god renderd much as he appears in Old Babylonian seals like 510-513. The two crossed bulls on which th second deity stands in 1011 are unquestionably north-Mesopotamian, for crossed animals occur frequently in Nuzi impressions, as in Nuzi 234-327."--Porada, CANES, p. 140
Summary
Suppliant woman and male deity(?), between them deity with crescent standard who stands on two kneeling bulls crossed -- God brandishing indeterminate weapon and holding lightning fork, while standing on bull and facing male deity(?) with clasped hands.
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