Ninurta pursuing Anzu before worshipper

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
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	Neo-Babylonian
Provenance	purchased by Dr John P. Peters and Dr Robert Francis Harper in Baghdad in January 1889
First occurence	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.