Object no. | S01135 |
Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, bearded hero (archer) wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge grasps a foreleg of a rampant wild goat (ibex) with his right hand and holds a scimitar in his lowered left hand. He has a sword at his waist. On his back, there is a quiver full of arrows. Behind the two figures, there is a plant with three branches. |
Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, archer, wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge, holding a scimitar in his lowered left hand; sword at his waist; with a quiver full of arrows on his back - plant: with three branches - wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards |
Subcategory | cylinder seal |
Collection | De Clercq Collection |
Museum number | De Clercq 313 |
Condition, shape | slightly worn |
Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
First occurence | before 1888 |
Archaeological context | N/A |
Registration number | N/A |
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26, d: 12 |
Material and features | "porphyre aventurine" |
Style | linear |
Scene | contest |
Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888,179 no. 313 and pl. XXIX. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888. |
Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |