Worshipper (priest) standing before crescent moon and encircled eight-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 eight-rayed, globe-centred star on a similar post and dais. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon: on a short post placed on a cult dais - cult daises (parakkus) (2): with vertical niches - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred, with four double rays on a short post placed on a cult dais - worshipper, priest: beardless, bald, wearing a long, fringed robe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The British Museum |
| Museum number | BM WA 129530 – 1945-10-13, 74 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Southesk Collection; acquired by him in 1898 from William Talbot Ready |
| First occurence | before 1898 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 35.5; d: 20 |
| Material and features | "grossular garnet: pale green, occasionally mottled bright green, translucent (see Section I.6.4)" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | cultic |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Carnegie 1908, Qc 37. Carnegie, H., Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems. Formed by James Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. Edited by his DaughterLady Helena Carnegie in Two Volumes. Vol. I: Egyptian Assyrian Syrian Phoenician Greek Etruscan Roman – Vol. II: Sassanian Oriental Mesopotamian Babylonian Assyrian Persian Hittite Cyprian Cilician Mediæval Modern, London, 1908. Collon 2001, 194 no. 390, pls. XXXII and XLII. 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. |