Two rampant bulls flanking stylised tree
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders within rows of outward-pointing triangles at the top and bottom. Two rampant bulls flank a stylised tree. Behind them is a globe-centred star above a crescent moon, a bird, and a rhomb. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird - borderlines (2): line borders within rows of outward-pointing triangles at the top and bottom - bulls (2): rampant - crescent moon - rhomb - star: globe-centred - stylised tree: rosette-type tree with interlinked buds |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Museum number | BM 119197 (1927,1003.192) |
| Condition, shape | worn |
| Culture | Isin II |
| Provenance | acquired by the museum from Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 50.1, d: 19.5 (P 41) |
| Material and features | limestone, mottled, pinks |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | animal, ritual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 82 no. 3K 4 and pl. 13: 3K 4. Porada(†), E. – Collon, D., Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals IV: The Second Millennium BC (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 4), London, 2016. |