Object no. | S01135 |
Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, bearded hero (archer) wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge grasps a foreleg of a rampant wild goat (ibex) with his right hand and holds a scimitar in his lowered left hand. He has a sword at his waist. On his back, there is a quiver full of arrows. Behind the two figures, there is a plant with three branches. |
Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, archer, wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge, holding a scimitar in his lowered left hand; sword at his waist; with a quiver full of arrows on his back - plant: with three branches - wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards |
Subcategory | cylinder seal |
Collection | De Clercq Collection |
Museum Number | De Clercq 313 |
Condition, shape | slightly worn |
Culture / Production Place | Neo-Assyrian |
Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
First Occurrence | before 1888 |
Archaeological context | N/A |
Registration number | N/A |
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 26, d: 12 |
Material and features | "porphyre aventurine" |
Style | linear |
Scene | contest |
Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888,179 no. 313 and pl. XXIX. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888. |
Object history |