Bull galloping towards stylised plant
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by double-line borders at the top and bottom. A bull gallops towards a stylised plant with three branches. A four-rayed star and a vertically-set crescent moon appear above the animal, while in front of it is a rhomb. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): double-line borders at the top and bottom - bull: galloping - crescent moon: vertically-set - rhomb - star: four-rayed - stylised plant: with three branches |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Museum number | BM 89560 (1880,1112.2146) |
| Condition, shape | unevenly shaped, broken in two and repaired |
| Culture | Isin II |
| Provenance | acquired by the museum from H. Rassam’s excavations at Birs Nimrud (Borsippa) |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 48.5, d: 16.9 (tapering to 14.3; P 6) |
| Material and features | faience, whitish core with fragmentary glaze surviving, now red, brown and white |
| Style | sintered quartz |
| Scene | animal, ritual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 84 no. 3K 15, pl. 14: 3K 15 and pl. 48: 3K 15. 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. |