Stamp-cylinder seal: Various animal heads in two registers (cylinder image) – griffin with crescent moon and triangular pattern (stamp image)

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The cylinder image comprises two registers separated by a horizontal ruling. In the upper register, there are the heads of a bull, two deer (stags), and two wild goats (ibexes). In front of the bull is an eight-rayed, globe-centred star, while between the deer is a crescent moon. In the lower register, the animal heads include bull, a mouflon, two deer (stags) with a bird between them, a bird of prey, and a horse or onager(?). The stamp image shows a reclining griffin with a crescent moon above and a triangular pattern below.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- animal heads (11): two bulls, four deer (stags), two wild goats (ibexes), two mouflons, one bird of prey, and one horse or onager(?) - bird - borderline: horizontal ruling in the middle of the cylinder image; triangular pattern with dots on the stamp image - crescent moons (2) - griffin: reclining - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred
Subcategory	cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection	Bibel+Orient Museum, Freiburg / Bibel+Orient Museum, Fribourg
Museum number	VR 1981.214
Culture	Urartian
Provenance	N/A
First occurence	1981
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 24.8, d: 14.6–16.4
Material and features	"grünschwarzer Serpentin"
Style	linear
Scene	animal
Transliteration	N/A
Bibliography	Keel-Leu – Teissier 2004, 218 and 449 no. 243. Keel-Leu, H. J. – Teissier, B.: Die vorderasiatischen Rollsiegel der Sammlungen «Bibel+Orient» der Universität Freiburg Schweiz = The Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals of the Collections «Bible+Orient» of the University of Fribourg. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 200) Fribourg – Göttingen, 2004.