between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 886
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 19 x 10 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 885-891 present a completely non-Babylonian motif, worship of an animal ... in 886 it is a large ratlike animal, perhaps a mongoose ..."--Porada, CANES, p. 110
Summary
Mongoose before three worshipers, each on one knee.
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