between 1500 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 1015
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 19 x 7 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"The nude bearded hero in 1013 and 1014, and the suppliant goddess in 1015, are typical Old Babylonian figures; however, 1015 also presents some non-Babylonian features, in the gesture of a god holding a scimitar upright, as found in provincial Babylonian seals like 882 and in a manikin worshiping the god, a figure depicted in Syro-Cappadocian seals such as 902-905."--Porada, CANES, p. 140-141
Summary
Suppliant goddess, worshiper, and small nude worshiper on one knee, all before god with crook in ascending posture.
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