| 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 |
N/A |
| 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. |