Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S01128 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling winged hero wearing a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic grasps the foreleg of a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx). Both figures wear horned headdresses. Between the two figures, a bird appears in the sky. Above the hybrid creature are the Sibitti (Pleiades) and below a fish. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - hero: winged, wearing a horned headdress and a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic - fish - human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): rampant, raising a forepaw, wearing a horned headdress - Sibitti (Pleiades) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | De Clercq Collection |
| Museum number | De Clercq 306 |
| 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: 36, d: 9 |
| Material and features | "porphyre noir" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888, 177 no. 306 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 |