Mouflon striding towards stylised tree
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A mouflon strides towards an elaborate stylised plant. Between its legs are a flower and a small plant, while above it are two crescent moons, an eight-rayed, globe-centred star, and a Kassite cross. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moons (2) - flower - mouflon: striding, raising a foreleg, head turned bacwkards - Kassite cross - plant: small - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred - stylised tree: palmette-type tree surrounded by interlinked buds, reminiscent of a rosette |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Museum number | BM 102535 (1908,0411.43) |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges; highly polished |
| Culture | Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | acquired by the museum from J E. Géjou |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 28.1, d: 14 (P 4.5) |
| Material and features | quartz, jasper: yellow-brown, black dendritic inclusions |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | animal, ritual |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Matthews 1990, no. 335. Matthews, D.M., Principles of Composition in Near Eastern Glyptic of the Later Second Millennium B.C. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica, 8), Freiburg – Göttingen, 1990. Collon 2005, 189–190 no. 916. Collon, D.: First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East [First published in 1987] London, 2005. Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 124 no. MA 1 and pl. 22: MA 1. 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. |