between 600 and 400 B.C.
yellowish limestone ;
Morgan Seal 810
Description
1 stamp seal : yellowish limestone ; 23 x 19 x 16.5 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"...795-811 have been classed as Neo-Babylonian, because many seal impressions of corresponding style and subject have been found on Neo-Babylonian tablets of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. In these impressions a relatively uniform style perists, though the dates of most of the tablets reach well into Persian times (for example, Philadelphia 965-969), and Persian seal impressions also appear on them ... Stars appear more frequently in stamps of drilled (805, 807, 809, 810) than of modeled style ... In 810 a star takes the place of symbols and altar. A cross-shaped object topped by a globe occasionall occurs (810, 811); its meaning is not clear."--Porada, CANES, p. 96, 99
Conical seal with rounded top and slightly convex oval base.
Conical seal with rounded top and slightly convex oval base.
Summary
Worshiper, one star above and one below his upraised hand; behind him, cross-shaped object topped by globe.
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