Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S04769 |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps an ostrich on either side, each by the neck. He wears a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. The upper part of his garment is decorated with a dot-in-square pattern while the lower part with a net or crosshatch pattern. Behind the birds is a horizontally-set, seven-line cuneiform inscription framed and separated by rulings. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- birds (2): ostriches, heads turned backwards - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a dot-in-square pattern while the lower part with a net or crosshatch pattern - inscription: cuneiform, horizontally-set, seven lines, framed and separated by rulings |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, formerly kept in the Cabinert Royal des Médailles a la Haye, The Hague |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 48.5, d: 22 |
| Material and features | "calcédoine rose" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform: Akkadian |
| Bibliography |
Zadoks-Josephus 1952, no. 148. 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. Collon 1994, 37–40. Collon, D.: "Urzana of Muṣasir’s seal." In: Çilingiroğlu, A. – French, D.H. (eds.) Anatolian Iron Ages 3: The Proceedings of the Third Iron Ages Colloquium held at Van, 6-12 August 1990. (The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph 16) Ankara 1994, 37–40. Collon 2005, 87 no. 405. Collon, D.: First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. [First published in 1987] London, 2005. |
| 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 ZN and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN (20 March 2026). GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter |