Four-winged goddess or wind demon grasping human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) on either side


Four-winged goddess or wind demon grasping human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) on either side
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A four-winged female figure (perhaps wind demon) grasps a rampant human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) on either side, each by a foreleg. She wears a horned headdress and a double-belted, tiered and fringed skirt or robe. Behind the rampant beasts is a palmette-like stylised tree with a eight-rayed(?), globe centred star above.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- deity (wind demon): beardless, goddess, four-winged, wearing a horned headdress and a double-belted, tiered and fringed skirt or robe
- human-faced winged wild goats (ibexes) (2): rampant
- star: eight-rayed(?), globe centred
- stylised tree: palmette-like
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection N/A, formerly kept in the Erlenmeyer Collection
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance ex-Erlenmeyer Collection, surfaced at Sotheby's (London) 12–06–1997, lot 88
First occurence 1997
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 26, d: 10
Material and features "banded agate"
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Sotheby's (London) 12–06–1997, 56 lot 88.



Sotheby's (London) 12–06–1997: Antiquities including Western Asiatic Antiquities and Cylinder Seals from the Erlenmeyer Collection (Part II) (Sale LN7381 "NIMBUS").