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 | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | N/A |
| First occurence | 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 | 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 |