Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S00948 |
| Description of the seal image | Royal hero grasps a rampant lion by the neck with one hand and holds a dagger with the other. He wears a dentate crown (cidaris) and a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. Next to them stands a scorpion-tailed bird-man on a ground line. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- ground line - lion: rampant, clawing at the hero - royal hero: bearded, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic, holding a dagger - scorpion-tailed bird-man: striding |
| Subcategory | bead cylinder seal |
| Collection | The British Museum |
| Museum number | BM ANE 89832 – 1887-10-8, 2 |
| Condition, shape | damaged upper and lower edges; large chip partly distorts the head of the scorpion-tailed bird-man |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | "presented by Major Durand of the Afghan Boundary Commission" |
| First occurence | 1887 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 25; d: 10 (13) (barrel-shaped) |
| Material and features | "Quartz, sardonyx (probably artificially dyed): banded, brown and white. The patchy brown and while-grey colouring of some of the bands and the concentration of brown in several fractures suggests that an agate body (possibly grey to brown and whitish) was engraved and then dyed, using a honey solution so that the induced colouring follows the natural banding of the material (see no. 25; see Chapter VI.1.4 and VI.2.1.6). The barrel shape of the seal is consistent with its having been reworked from a bead (see Chapter VI.4)." |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | animal, contest, dual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Translation | N/A |
| Bibliography |
Merrillees 2005, 57 no. 24 and pl. X. Merrillees, P. H.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 6) London, 2005. |
| Object history |