Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S01742 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene of the cylinder image depicting dual scene is framed by quadrupled line borders at the top and bottom. In the hunting scene, a half-kneeling, bearded hunter (archer) wearing a belted, fringed tunic aims his bow at a rampant wild goat (ibex). In the ritual scene, a bearded worshipper wearing a long, fringed robe stands before a stylised tree below a winged sun-disc. On the stamp seal image, a cow is shown nursing its calf. Behind them is a plant(?). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): quadrupled line borders at the top and bottom - calf: suckling - cow: nursing its calf - hunter: archer, half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a belted, fringed tunic - plant: uncertain - stylised tree: inside a serrated arch - wild goat (ibex): rampant - winged sun-disc - worshipper: bearded, wearing a long, fringed robe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal stamp cylinder |
| Collection | Adana Archaeology Museum |
| Museum number | 61 |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | excavated at Gözlükule, Tarsus in 1938 |
| First occurence | 1938 (excavation) |
| Archaeological context | section B |
| Registration number | 38.533 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 31, h (seal design): 25.5, d: 13 |
| Material and features | "gray-green steatite, highly polished", "roche bleu verdâtre" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | dual, hunting, ritual |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1963, 350, 356 no. 6, pls. 162 and 165. Porada, E.: "Seals". In: Goldman, H. (ed.): Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. III: The Iron Age. Text – Plates. Princeton, New Jersey, 1963, 347–358. Tunca 1979, 18 no. 65. Tunca, O.: "Catalogue des sceaux-cylindres du Musée régional d’Adana". Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 3/1 (1979) 1–28. Niederreiter – Lőrincz 2025, 116–118 fig. 29. Niederreiter Z. – Lőrincz H.: Catalogue of Cylinder Seals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Middle Assyrian and First-Millennium-BCE Seals Added to the Collection from 1909 Onward. (Antiqua et Orientalia 12 – Assyriologia 15) Budapest, 2025.
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| 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 (01 April 2026). GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |