Bird-headed apkallu (griffin-demon) breaking branch of stylised tree
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bird-headed apkallu (griffin-demon) breaks off a palm leaf of a stylised tree while stepping on its offshoots. The apkallu is dressed in a quadruple-belted, tasselled tunic. Beyond the tree is a vertically-set, two-line cuneiform inscription framed and separated by rulings. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird-headed apkallu (griffin demon): wearing a quadruple-belted, tasselled tunic - inscription: cuneiform, vertically-set, two lines, framed and separated by rulings - stylised tree: palmette-type tree with offshoots |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Museum number | Morgan Seal 609 |
| Culture | Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | "acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908" |
| First occurence | between about 1885 and 1908 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 38, d: 15 |
| Material and features | "red sard" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | ritual |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform: Akkadian |
| Transliteration |
1. KIŠIB mti-la-' 2. me-me aš-šur–SUM |
| Translation |
Seal of Tila’ … Aššur-iddin |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1948, 71, 179 no. 609 and pl. LXXXVII Porada, E.: Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. I: Text – II: Plates. (The Bollingen Series 14) Washington, 1948. |