Worshipper facing Ea standing on goat-fish (suhurmashu) next to human-headed fish apkallu (fish-cloaked priest)


Worshipper facing Ea standing on goat-fish (suhurmashu) next to human-headed fish apkallu (fish-cloaked priest)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by intermittent line borders at the top and bottom. A worshipper in a long, fringed robe stands facing an armed god (Ea) standing on a goat-fish (suhurmashu), and a human-headed fish apkallu (fish-coaked priest). The divine figure wears a tall, rectangular headdress and a long, triple-belted, fringed robe. He has a sword at his waist and holds a beaded ring and a curved, ram-headed staff. The priest behind the deity is naked except for the cloak and holds a cone and bucket. Behind him and the worshipper is an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree). A crescent moon appears above the goat-fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): intermittent line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moon
- ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree)
- god, Ea: armed, god, wearing a tall, rectangular headdress and a long, triple-belted, fringed robe, has a sword at his waist, holding a beaded ring and a curved, ram-headed staff
- goat-fish (suhurmashu): bearing divine figure
- human-headed fish apkallu (fish-cloaked priest): naked except for the cloak, holding a cone and bucket
- star: eight-rayed, globe-centred
- worshipper: wearing a long, fringed robe
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM WA 133031 – 1963-2-11, 1
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance N/A
First occurence 1963
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 34; d:13
Material and features "limestone (partly dolomitised): streaked, red-brown and pale brown"
Style linear
Scene cultic
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Collon 2001, 153 no. 293 and pl. XXIV.



Collon, D.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 5) London, 2001.