Worshipper and rampant wild goat (ibex) flanking stylised tree under winged sun-disc


Worshipper and rampant wild goat (ibex) flanking stylised tree under winged sun-disc
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded worshipper in a long robe and a rampant wild goat (ibex) flank a stylised tree under the winged sun-disc. Behind the worshipper and the wild goat are several motifs and symbols, including an eight-rayed, globe-centred star, a crescent moon, and the Sibitti (Pleiades) above a rhomb and a fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moon
- fish
- rhomb
- Sibitti (Pleiades)
- star: eight-rayed, globe-centred
- stylised tree
- wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards
- winged sun-disc: with globe-tipped appendages
- worshipper: bearded, wearing a long robe
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The Morgan Library & Museum
Museum number Morgan Seal 707
Culture Neo-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: 29, d: 18.5
Material and features "orange chert"
Style modelled
Scene animal, ritual
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Porada 1948, 87 no. 707 and pl. CV.



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.