Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S01268 |
| 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 headband and a belted tunic aims his bow at a griffin. He is further armed with a sword at his waist and has a tasselled quiver with arrows on his back. Between the two figures, there is a crescent moon above a spiky plant and a double wedge below the hybrid creature. Behind the two figures, there are the Sibitti (Pleiades) above a rhomb, while above the hybrid creature is an eight-rayed star. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - griffin: winged, lifting a foreleg - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, archer, wearing a headband and a triple-belted tunic, with a sword at his waist and has a tasselled quiver with arrows on his back - plant: spiky - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: eight-rayed - wedge: cuneiform, double |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bibel+Orient Museum, Freiburg / Bibel+Orient Museum, Fribourg |
| Museum Number | VR 1981.95 |
| Condition, shape | worn |
| Culture / Production Place | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | N/A |
| First Occurrence | 1981 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 33, d:15 |
| Material and features | "schwarzgrüner Serpentin" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Keel-Leu – Teissier 2004, 173–174 and 439 no. 165. Keel-Leu, H. J. – Teissier, B.: Die vorderasiatischen Rollsiegel der Sammlungen «Bibel+Orient» der Universität Freiburg Schweiz = The Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals of the Collections «Bible+Orient» of the University of Fribourg. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 200) Fribourg – Göttingen, 2004. |
| Object history |