Stamp–cylinder seal: Animal scene: Fish-tailed hybrid creatures clashing next to rampant bull (cylinder image) – Fish-tailed hybrid creature (stamp image)


Stamp–cylinder seal: Animal scene: Fish-tailed hybrid creatures clashing next to rampant bull (cylinder image) – Fish-tailed hybrid creature (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder seal image depicts two winged, three-legged, fish-tailed hybrid creatures with wild goat (ibex) heads clashing while a rampant bull looks back at them. The stamp image depicts another fish-tailed hybrid creature.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bull: rampant, head turned backwards
- hybrid creatures 1-2: winged, fish-tailed, three-legged, with wild goat (ibex) heads, possibly goat-fish (suhurmashu)
- hybrid creature 3: fish-tailed quadruped, on the stamp image
Subcategory cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam
Museum number 18.372
Culture Urartian
Provenance surfaced at Christie’s (South Kensington, London) 05–10–2000, 158–159 lot 279 (1st item); ex-Kist Collection
First occurence before 2000
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 22; d: 12 (loop)
Material and features "red stone"
Style linear
Scene animal
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Christie’s (South Kensington, London) 05–10–2000, 158–159 lot 279 (1st item).



Christie’s (South Kensington, London) 05–10–2000: Antiquities (sale ANT-8890).



Kist 2003, 198 no. 372.



Kist, J.: Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection: Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 18) Leiden – Boston, 2003.