Pot-stand between king and his attendant


Pot-stand between king and his attendant
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A beardless attendant faces a bearded king or dignitary. The attendant wears a long fringed robe and holds a flag-shaped fan and a cloth. The king wears similar clothing and holds a cup and a bow. He has a tassel hanging from his hair and a sword at his waist. Between the two figures is a vessel on a stand (pot-stand), while behind them is an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) below an eight-rayed, globe-centred star. A wedge appears behind the king.
Figures, motifs/symbols - attendant: beardless, wearing a long fringed robe, holding a flag-shaped fan and a cloth
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree)
- king or dignitary: bearded, wearing a long fringed robe, holding a cup and a bow, has a tassel hanging from his hair and a sword at his waist
- pot-stand: with a vessel on top
- star: eight-rayed, globe-centred
- wedge: cuneiform
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire / Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
Museum number O.1636 – 15-05-1939
Condition, shape slightly damaged upper and lower edges
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance ex-Cugnin Collection
First occurence 1911
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 23, d: 10.6
Material and features "serpentine"
Style linear
Scene banquet
Bibliography

Niederreiter 2020, 127–128 no. 49, pls. 9 and 15.



Niederreiter Z.: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals in the Royal Museums of Art and History. I: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (circa 1000–500 B.C.). (Antique et Orientalia 7 – Assyriologia 10) Budapest, 2020.