Worshipper facing stylised tree next to rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx)


Worshipper facing stylised tree next to rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The object has been damaged by chipping, distorting the seal image vertically. The remaining scene depicts a bearded worshipper in a long robe facing a stylised tree. Behind him is a rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx). Below the latter's belly is a four-rayed star with globe-tipped rays (cross), while above its wings is a crescent moon.
Figures, motifs/symbols - crescent moon
- human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): rampant, bearded
- star or cross: four-rayed, with globe-tipped rays
- stylised tree: arch-and-net tree
- worshipper: bearded, wearing a long robe
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The Morgan Library & Museum
Museum number Morgan Seal 708
Condition, shape partly broken off; chipping probably distorts the winged sun-disc above the stylised tree
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: 11
Material and features "grey chert"
Style modelled
Scene ritual
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Porada 1948, 87 no. 708 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.