Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S00664 |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero wearing a double-belted tunic grasps two rampant wild goats (ibexes) by their ears. Above the animal on the right is a crescent moon. There is a short ground line below the hero. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - ground line: short - hero: bearded, wearing a double-belted tunic - wild goats (ibexes) (2): rampant, heads turned backwards |
| Subcategory | bead cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Museum number | Morgan Seal 769 |
| Condition, shape | damaged upper and lower edges; barrel-shaped |
| Culture | Achaemenid, Neo-Babylonian |
| 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: 26, d: 7 (12) |
| Material and features | "banded agate" |
| Style | cut, modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1948, 93 no. 769 and pl. CXVI. 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. |
| 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 GWN 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 (21 February 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai, GWN – Gábor Winkler-Nemes |