between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
slate-olive serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 224
Description
1 cylinder seal : slate-olive serpentine ; 20.5 x 11.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
Damaged cylinder.
"[Seals] 224-233, which are executed with varying degrees of care, all show the bull kneeling. Usually a seated goddess holds one end of a cord that seems to pass through the gate, while a male attendant, who is standing or kneeling or possibly floating in the air, holds the other end. Exceptions are 224, in which the goddess holds not the rope but a cup ..." Porada, CANES, p. 28
"[Seals] 224-233, which are executed with varying degrees of care, all show the bull kneeling. Usually a seated goddess holds one end of a cord that seems to pass through the gate, while a male attendant, who is standing or kneeling or possibly floating in the air, holds the other end. Exceptions are 224, in which the goddess holds not the rope but a cup ..." Porada, CANES, p. 28
Summary
Kneeling bull, carrying winged gate on its back, before seated goddess who raises cup under crescent in sky.
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Place
Southern Mesopotamia.
Department