between 1350 B.C. and 1200 B.C.
dark-brown hematite ;
Morgan Seal 1062
Description
1 cylinder seal : dark-brown hematite ; 20 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 1060-1064 can be compared to Nuzi 888 and 889, in which the designs likewise show no particular plan. There is no obvious meaning, and no clear decorative pattern appears."--Porada, CANES, p. 147
Summary
Upper field: fish with mace(?) poised on its back, bird, hand -- Lower field: crouching lion, horizontal line, kneeling antelope -- Before antelope, rosette; above lion, second rosette.
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