Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02131 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling bearded hunter (archer) wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a prancing bull. The archer has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back. Between the two figures is an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) with two shoots below a nine-rayed, globe-centred star. Above the bull, there is a small star next to the Sibitti (Pleiades). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: prancing - ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) - hunter: archer, bearded, half-kneeling, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star 1: nine-rayed, globe-centred - star 2: small |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Williams Collection |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Williams Collection: assembled by Reverend Dr William Frederick Williams; after him, owned by Mr Robert S. Williams of Utica, New York |
| First occurence | before 1886 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "obsidian" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1886, 255 no. 9 and pl. VI. Menant, J.: "Oriental Cylinders of the Williams Collection". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 2/3 (1886) 247–260. |
| Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |