between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 209
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 43.5 x 28 (26) mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Male and female deities associated with the cultivation of grain are represented in 207-214 ... On the remaining seals of this group, the nature of the deities is indicated in various degrees of simplification: in 209, 211, 213, only ears of grain growing from their shoulders or from their garments serve to identify them. An offering before the goddess of grain is pictured in 209, 211, 212." Porada, CANES, p. 26
Summary
Seated goddess with grain growing from her shoulders and three stalks in her hand, receiving three minor gods and worshiper carrying kid.
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