Worshipper kneeling before stylised tree below winged sun-disc
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded worshipper kneels before the winged sun-disc above four parallel, horizontal lines, likely representing a stylised plant. Beyond the plant are three symbols above one another, including a crescent moon, a rhomb, and a fish. Next to the winged sun-disc is a small glboe. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - fish - globe: small - rhomb - stylised plant: uncertain - winged sun-disc: with globe-tipped appendages on the top and bottom - worshipper: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, fringed robe |
| Subcategory | stamp cylinder |
| Collection | The British Museum |
| Museum number | BM WA 125781 – 1937-12-11, 62 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian, peripheral |
| Provenance | acquired by Sir Max Mallowan during his Khabur/Balikh survey |
| First occurence | 1937 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 15 (21 including knob); d: 8 |
| Material and features | "quartz, chalcedony: blue with white inclusions" |
| Style | cut, drilled |
| Scene | ritual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Collon 2001, 96 no. 169, pls. XIII and XLIII. Collon, D.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 5) London, 2001. |