CIRCA 800-600 B.C.

The main scene on this seal is composed of a deity, probably a goddess, with a worshipper standing before her. Between them is a cross-legged table with a crescent moon above. The terminal is composed of a winged disc with globe-tipped streamers above a sacred tree.

The style of this seal in which the device is created – solely by a combination of round-tipped drilled holes together with linear wheel cuts – is typical of the 7th century B.C. in Assyria, Babylonia and western Iran. For related examples, see nos. 272-275 in D. Collon, Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, vol. V, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods.