| 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 faces a stylised tree on a hill with the winged sun-disc above. In front of the worshipper are the Sibitti (Pleiades) at ground level, while behind him are a six-rayed, globe-centred star and a crescent moon above a cross-legged offering table, a rhomb, and a fish. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - fish - hill: crosshatched semicircle - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - stylised tree: with globe-tipped branches, on a hill - table: offering, cross-legged, with a cloth on top - winged sun-disc - worshipper: bearded, wearing a long robe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Museum number | Morgan Seal 709 |
| 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: 20, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "white chalcedony" |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1948, 87 no. 709 and pl. CVI. 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. |