Stamp-cylinder seal: Two fish-tailed birds following each other (cylinder image) – bird-headed quadruped (stamp image)

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The cylinder image is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. Two fish-tailed birds follow each other. Around them are single wedges scattered in the image field. The stamp seal depicts a bird-headed quadruped with bunched legs.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- fish-tailed birds (2): crested, striding - hybrid creature: bird-headed quadruped, with bunched legs, on the stamp image - wedges (12): cuneiform
Subcategory	stamp cylinder
Collection	Bibel+Orient Museum, Freiburg / Bibel+Orient Museum, Fribourg
Museum number	VR 1981.215
Condition, shape	slightly damaged upper and lower edges
Culture	Urartian
Provenance	N/A
First occurence	1981
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 27.4, d: 10.3–11
Material and features	"grünlich dunkel- bis hellgräulicher Serpentin"
Style	linear
Scene	animal
Transliteration	N/A
Bibliography	Keel-Leu – Teissier 2004, 218 and 449 no. 244. 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.