Worshipper (priest) facing oil burner, crescent moon and bird (rooster[?]) on cult daises (parakkus)


Worshipper (priest) facing oil burner, crescent moon and bird (rooster[?]) on cult daises (parakkus)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bald, beardless worshipper (priest) stands facing an oil burner with a stand terminating in bull's feet, a crescent moon altar on a cult dais (parakku), and another cult dais with a striding bird (rooster[?]) on top. The worshipper wears a long, belted, fringed robe and holds a cup or goblet and a bucket.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bird (rooster[?]): striding, on a cult dais
- crescent moon altar: on a cult dais
- cult daises (parakkus) (2): with vertical niches
- oil burner: tall, stand with bull's feet
- worshipper: priest, bald, beardless, wearing a long, belted, fringed robe, holding a cup and a bucket
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM WA 89311 – 1856-4-24, 7
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance the seal was actually already in the British Museum in 1853 when Sir Austen Henry Layard published a drawing of it
First occurence before 1853; "the seal was actually already in the British Museum in 1853 when Layard published a drawing of it"
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 38.5; d: 20
Material and features "quartz, chalcedony: blue"
Style modelled
Scene offering
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Collon 2001, 194–195 no. 391, pl. 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.