Worshipper (priest) standing before crescent moon and encircled six-rayed, globe-centred star on cult daises (parakkus)


Worshipper (priest) standing before crescent moon and encircled six-rayed, globe-centred star on cult daises (parakkus)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A beardless, bald worshipper (priest) stands facing two divine symbols, including a crescent moon on a short post placed on a cult dais (parakku), and an encircled six-rayed, globe-centred star on a similar post and dais.
Figures, motifs/symbols - crescent moon: on a short post decorated with a vertical ladder pattern
- cult daises (parakkus) (2): with vertical niches
- star: six-rayed, globe-centred, on a short post decorated with a vertical ladder pattern
- worshipper, priest: beardless, bald, wearing a long, fringed robe
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM WA 89813 – 1859-3-1, 88
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance ex-Prince Poniatowski Collection, Florence; ex-Hertz Collection sold by J. Mayer at Sotheby's, London, 9 February 1859, lot 404
First occurence ex Prince Poniatowski Collection, Florence, before 1847
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 37; d: 17
Material and features "quartz, chalcedony: spotted/mottled, pale green and dark brown"
Style modelled
Scene cultic
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Collon 2001, 193–194 no. 389 and pl. XXXII.



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.