Ninurta pursuing Anzu before worshipper

Object no. S01988
Description of the seal image Ninurta (archer), depicted in a wide stance, wearing a long robe, aims his star-studded bow at the rampant Anzu (lion-griffin). He is further armed with a sword at his waist and another bow on his back. Behind Ninurta stands a worshipper wearing a long robe below a large crescent moon. Above Anzu's right wing are the Sibitti (Pleiades), while a rhomb appears above a seven- or eight-rayed, globe-centred star and below the wing.
Figures, motifs/symbols - Anzu: lion-griffin, rampant, head turned backwards
- crescent moon
- globes: around the figures
- Ninurta: archer, hunter, bearded, depicted in a wide stance, wearing a long robe, has a sword at his waist and another bow on his back
- rhomb
- Sibitti (Pleiades)
- star: small, seven- or eight-rayed, globe-centred
- worshipper: wearing a long robe
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Penn Museum
Museum Number B1051 – CBS 1051
Condition, shape chip below the bow
Culture / Production Place Neo-Babylonian
Provenance purchased by Dr John P. Peters and Dr Robert Francis Harper in Baghdad in January 1889
First Occurrence 1889
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 27.5, d: 15
Material and features "chalcedony"
Style drilled
Scene pursuing
Bibliography

Legrain 1925, 307 no. 610 and pl. XXXI.



Legrain, L.: The Culture of the Babylonians. From Their Seals in the Collections of the Museum. I–II. (Publications of the Babylonian Section 14) Philadelphia, 1925.

Object history
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