Stamp-cylinder seal: Miscellaneous scene depicting hunters, animals, a hybrid creature and astral symbols

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. The figures in this scene are separated by a floral pattern made of double strands and globes or lotuses in the joints, essentially creating three registers and nine cells. In the upper register are w winged sun-disc in one 'cell', followed by a bird(?), a six-rayed-globe-centred star, a crescent moon, and three wedges. The last cell shows a horse, above which is another crescent moon. In the middle section there are three cells. In the first one is a half-kneelig spearman resting his spear on his knee. The middle cell depicts a reclining lion-griffin and a crescent moon above. In the last cell is a standing figure wearing a long robe with a fringed lower edge, holding an axe and an undetermined object. Behind him are globes, possibly indicating the Sibitti (Pleiades). The three cells in the lower register include a reclining male lion, a reclining lioness, and a reclining wild goat (ibex), respectively. The stamp image shows a winged sun-disc with streamers. One of those streamers is seemingly held by an undetermined figure, while next to the other one is a double-headed axe.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- axe: double-headed, on the stamp image - bird - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moons (3) - floral pattern: made of double strands and globes or lotuses in the joints, creating three registers and nine cells - horse - hunter: uncertain, archer or spearman, half-kneeling - hunter or deity: holding an axe and an undetermined object, wearing a long robe with a fringed lower edge - lion: reclining - lioness: reclining - lion-griffin: reclining - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - undetermined figure: on the stamp image - wedges (2): cuneiform - wild goat (ibex): reclining, head turned backwards - winged sun-disc (2): both with streamers, one of them on the stamp image
Subcategory	stamp cylinder
Collection	private collection, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Culture	Urartian
First occurence	1991
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 22.3 (32.6 with loop); d: 11.8
Material and features	"dark grey serpentinite" (in Japanese)
Style	linear
Scene	animal, contest, hunting, multiple registers
Bibliography	Ishida, ed., 1991, 8 no. I–13–1. Ishida, K., ed.: Inshō no sekai. Kodai oriento bijutsu to rekishi no kataribe [The World of Seals. Narrators/Storytellers of the Visual Arts and History of the Ancient Near East]. Tokyo, 1991 [in Japanese].