Stamp-cylinder seal: Incense burner and offering table next to divine symbols (cylinder image) – two sitting human-headed winged lions (sphinxes, lamassus), facing each other (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Incense burner and offering table next to divine symbols (cylinder image) – two sitting human-headed winged lions (sphinxes, lamassus), facing each other (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. The cylinder image depicts a star-topped standard, an incense burner, a nine-rayed, globe-centred star above a cross-legged offering table, and the Sibitti (Pleiades). On the stamp image, there are two sitting human-headed winged lions (sphinxes, lamassus), facing each other.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- human-headed winged lions (sphinxes, lamassus) (2): on stamp image, sitting, facing each other
- incense burner
- Sibitti (Pleiades)
- standard: star-topped
- star: nine-rayed, globe-centred
- table: cross-legged
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection The Morgan Library & Museum
Museum number Morgan Seal 718
Condition, shape slightly damaged and worn; suspension loop has been partly broken off
Culture Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
Provenance "acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908"
First occurence between about 1885 and 1908
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 15 (21+), d: 10
Material and features "seal stone"
Style cut, drilled
Scene animal, offering
Bibliography

Porada 1948, 87 no. 718 and pl. CVI.



Porada, E.: Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. I: Text – II: Plates. (The Bollingen Series 14) Washington, 1948.