Ninurta pursuing Anzu
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| 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. |