between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 891
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 19.5 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 ... and in 888-891 the worship enters on the statue of a bull."--Porada, CANES, p. 110
Summary
Male and female worshiper at either side of statue of bull with rump protuberance and bird upon it and with two hands extending from its breast (statue placed on indeterminable design).
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