Iran / Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor / early 2nd millennium B.C.

Iran
Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor
early 2nd millennium B.C.
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Creator Nationality: Asian; Middle Eastern; Iranian
Creator Name-CRT: Iran
Title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor
View: Principal view
Creation Start Date: 0
Creation End Date: 0
Creation Date: early 2nd millennium B.C.
Creation Place: Iran
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Materials and Techniques: Serpentine
Dimensions: H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
Description: One version of the Mesopotamian presentation scene, showing a figure standing directly before the king, has been transformed into a distinctly Elamite image on this seal. Two seated figures are depicted with their right (in the impression) arms extended, holding cups; before them stands a male figure in a long robe next to a table. While the first seated figure, probably the ruler, wears a wrapped robe and sits on a throne, the second, perhaps his queen, is enveloped in a wide, flounced garment and is elevated on a platform beneath an overhanging vine. In the field are a crescent and a spade or dagger.
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York
ID Number: 1987.34
Credit Line: Purchase, Howard Phipps Foundation Gift, 1987
Copyright: Copyright ?? 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art . All rights reserved.
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_photo_lib.asp
Style or Period: Old Elamite period
AMICA ID: MMA_.1987.34
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright (c) 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved

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