between 2340 B.C. and 2150 B.C.
black serpentine ;
Morgan Seal 246
Description
1 cylinder seal : black serpentine ; 24 x 14.5 (13) mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Scenes showing worshipers standing before a deity without an intermediary (245-247) are rare in this period and later." Porada, CANES, p. 30
Summary
Deity enthroned before altar with flaming lamp(?), facing male and female worshiper.
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