Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02132 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded hunter (archer) wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes on the top and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a jumping winged horse. Between them is a small palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves. Above the hybrid creature is a crescent moon next to the winged sun-disc, while below it is a fish. Behind the two figures is an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above another palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - fish - hero: archer, hunter, bearded, wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge - stylised plant 1: small, palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves - stylised plant 2: palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred - winged horse: jumping - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Williams Collection |
| Museum Number | N/A |
| Culture / Production Place | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Williams Collection: assembled by Reverend Dr William Frederick Williams; after him, owned by Mr Robert S. Williams of Utica, New York |
| First Occurrence | before 1886 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 36, d: 14 |
| Material and features | "yellow agate" |
| Style | cut, drilled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1886, 255–256 no. 16 and pl. VI. Menant, J.: "Oriental Cylinders of the Williams Collection". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 2/3 (1886) 247–260. |
| Object history |