Worshipper facing stylised tree under winged sun-disc


Worshipper facing 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 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.