Stamp-cylinder seal: Animal scene: Three hybrid creatures walking towards fish (cylinder image) – Bird of prey with the tail of a fish or a scorpion (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Animal scene: Three hybrid creatures walking towards fish (cylinder image) – Bird of prey with the tail of a fish or a scorpion (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder image is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. Three hybrid creatures walk towards a vertically-set fish. One of them is a lion-headed, scorpion-tailed bird. Behind it walks a deer-headed (or gazelle-headed), scorpion-tailed bird with an undetermined symbol above its tail, while on the other side of the fish is a mouflon-headed bird with the head of a deer (or gazelle [antelope]) in place of a tail. Two rosettes and a crescent moon appear above the hybrid creature, and there are four small stars around the fish. The stamp image shows a bird of prey with the tail of a fish or a scorpion. In front of it is a human head with a round cap. A rosette and a crescent moon appear in the upper image field, while below is a small star.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moons (2)
- fish: vertically-set
- human head: with a round cap
- hybrid creature 1: lion's head, winged, bird's legs, scorpion tail
- hybrid creature 2: deer's or gazelle's (antelope's) head, winged, bird's legs, scorpion tail
- hybrid creature 3: mouflon's head, winged, bird's legs, head of a deer or gazelle (antelope) instead of a tail
- hybrid creature 4: bird's head, bird's legs, fish or scorpion tail
- rosettes (3)
- stars (5)
- undetermined motif: above the tail of the deer-hybrid
Subcategory cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM WA 130670 – 1947-10-18, 2
Condition, shape slightly damaged upper and lower edges; worn
Culture Urartian
Provenance N/A
First occurence 1947; Barnett 1948, 10 no. 56 and 13 fig. 10
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 21 (with loop: 29.5); d: 14 (top) – 16 (bottom) (flares out towards the carved base, grooved loop set on a raised disc)
Material and features "serpentinite: black"
Style linear
Scene animal
Transliteration

N/A
Translation N/A
Bibliography

Collon 2001, 55 no. 82 and pls. XXXV and XLIII.



Collon, D.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 5) London, 2001.