CIRCA 1900-1700 B.C.

The main scene is engraved with a standing goddess with long hair and a fleecy skirt, holding a branch in her outstretched hand. In front of her stands a worshipper wearing a short kilt that leaves his left shoulder exposed. He grasps the neck of a stag and holds a curved weapon in his lowered left hand. Two subsidiary scenes are separated by a guilloche. The upper register shows a standing Babylonian god with one leg projecting from his ankle-length robe. Before him is a lion-headed demon offering a long-eared quadruped, while behind him is a bird-headed demon holding two snakes. The lower register features a lion pawing at a recumbent goat, its head turned back.

For a similar lion-headed demon, see no. 1273 in B. Buchanan, Early Near Eastern Seals in The Yale Babylonian Collection. For a bird-headed demon, see fig. 6 in V. Verešová, “Bird-demons in the Aegean Bronze Age: Their Nature and Relationship to Egypt and the Near East,” in F. Blakolmer, ed., Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography.