between 1500 B.C. and 1350 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 1016
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 16 x 9 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"In 1016 and 1017 the personage holding a rod with balls is shown sitting; in 1016 he appears opposite a seated figure with a mace. The latter object oes not appear in the hand of a seated figure in Old Babylonian glyptic."--Porada, CANES, p. 141
Summary
Seated figure with mace(?) facing seated figure holding rod with balls -- Between them, worshiper.
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