Sitting figure drinking from small vessel (late Middle or Neo-Elamite)


Sitting figure drinking from small vessel (late Middle or Neo-Elamite)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image Over half of the object's surface has been abraded. The remaining scene is framed by two rows of outward-pointing triangles at the top and bottom. A divine(?) figure with a bird-like face sitting on a stool and wearing a long, double-belted robe with tiers of fringes drinks from a small vessel.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): two rows of outward-pointing triangles at the top and bottom
- figure with a bird-like face: sitting, wearing a long, double-belted robe with tiers of fringes, drinking from a small vessel
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection University Museum, Philadelphia
Museum number N/A
Condition, shape heavily worn
Culture Iranian, Neo-Elamite
Provenance Surkh Dum-i-Luri
Archaeological context Area 1, elevation 2B
Registration number Sor 200
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 31, d: 14
Material and features "brown stone"
Style linear
Scene banquet
Bibliography

van Loon 1989, 419 no. 58, 458 no. 234: 58 and pl. 234: 58.



van Loon, M.N.:“Iron Age Cylinder and Stamp Seals”. In: Schmidt(†), E.F. – van Loon, M.N. – Curvers, H.H. (eds.), The Holmes Expeditions to Luristan (Text – Plates) (Oriental Institute Publications 108) Chicago, Illinois, 1989, 413–474.