Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S05339 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling hunter (archer) aims his bow at a gazelle (antelope) with bunched legs standing on a mountain shaped by three globes and there is a worshipper behind him. Above the gazelle are the Sibitti (Pleiades). Between the hunter and his prey is likely a vessel below a crescent moon. There is a rhomb below a six-rayed, globe-centred star and between the beardless worshipper wearing a long robe and the hunter. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - gazelle (antelope): with buched legs - hunter: archer, half-kneeling - mountain: shaped by globes (3) - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - vessel - worshipper: beardless, wearing a long robe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden; formerly kept in the Cabinet Royal des Médailles à la Haye |
| Museum number | M.145 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | acquired by the the Cabinet Royal des Médailles à la Haye, before 1878 |
| First occurence | 1878 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 18.5, d: 10.5 |
| Material and features | "calcédoine", "cornaline rose" |
| Style | cut |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1878, 58 no. 145 – 127. Menant, J.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux du Cabinet Royal des Médailles de La Haye. La Haye, 1878. Zadoks-Josephus 1952, 33 no. 122*. Zadoks-Josephus J.A.N.: Catalogue sommaire des cylindres orientaux au Cabinet royal des médailles à La Haye. (En collaboration avec R. Frankena) La Haye, 1952. |
| 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 ER based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by ZN and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN (18 April 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, ER – Erika Roboz |