Ninurta pursuing Anzu

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Object no.	S01148
Description of the seal image	Ninurta aims his bow at the rampant Anzu (lion-griffin). He wears a round headdress and a long robe decorated with a crosshatch pattern between his legs. Below the wing of Anzu is a 'ball-and-staff' symbol, while in front of the figure, arranged in a column, is a crescent moon, a rhomb and a fish. Beyond these symbols is a winged sun-disc above a stylised tree similar to an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) with a globe in the middle.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- Anzu: lion-griffin, donkey ears, bird tail, winged, rampant, head turned backwards - 'ball-and-staff' - crescent moon - ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree): with a globe in the middle - fish - Ninurta: archer, hunter, aiming a bow with his left hand, and brandishing another weapon in his raised right hand, wearing a round headdress and a long robe decorated with a crosshatch pattern between his legs - rhomb - winged sun-disc
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	De Clercq Collection
Museum Number	De Clercq 325
Culture / Production Place	Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
Provenance	ex-de Clercq Collection
First Occurrence	before 1888
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 33, d: 15
Material and features	"sardoine"
Style	cut, drilled
Scene	pursuing
Bibliography	De Clercq – Menant 1888, 182 no. 325 and pl. XXX. 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

Divine World Glyptics

Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza

Ninurta pursuing Anzu

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