between 2000 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite ;
Morgan Seal 919
Description
1 cylinder seal : hematite ; 19 x 12 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Seals 918 and 919 offer as a criterion for dating the standard coposed of a male and female head (in 919 topped by a bird) that occurs in the Syro-Cappadocian seal 903 and in an impression on a cappadocian tablet, as well as on a number of seals of the first Syrian group, but not in later glyptic."--Porada, CANES, p. 120
Cylinder chipped.
Cylinder chipped.
Summary
Worshiper facing female figure with bird(?) perched on one hand, between them standard composed of female and male head mounted on crouching lion and topped with bird -- In sky, cross disk in crescent, star, animal head -- Terminal: antelope and griffin over guilloche -- Below latter, two seated lions, facing human head between them.
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