Rampant griffin and bull flanking stylised tree
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders within rows of outward-pointing triangles decorated with a crosshatch pattern at the top and bottom. A rampant griffin and a rampant bull flank a stylised tree (rosette tree) set between them. Below the forelegs of the creatures are a cross (four-rayed star) and a rhomb, respectively. A small drill hole is next to the cross. A Kassite cross appears behind the beasts. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders within rows of outward-pointing triangles decorated with a crosshatch pattern at the top and bottom - bull: rampant - cross: four-rayed star - griffin: rampant - Kassite cross - rhomb - stylised tree: rosette tree |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, Peabody Museum of Natural History |
| Museum number | YPM BC 037314; NCBS 00417 |
| Condition, shape | worn |
| Culture | Isin II, Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | part of the Newell Collection, acquired over a period of thirty years by Edward T. Newell, sometimes singly but also in small groups from dealers as well as from W.H. Ward and Professor O.N. Rood of Columbia University, before 1934 |
| First occurence | before 1934 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 47, d: 15 |
| Material and features | serpentine |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | animal, ritual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
von der Osten 1934, 62 no. 417 and pl. 28. von der Osten, H. H.: Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell. (Oriental Institute Publications 22) Chicago, 1934. online access: https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-037314 |