Two rampant and two reclining wild goats (ibexes) flanking tree on hill


Two rampant and two reclining wild goats (ibexes) flanking tree on hill
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. Two rampant wild goats (ibexes) flank a tree on a hill or mountain. Below their forelegs are two smaller, reclining wild goats. A horizontally-set, two-line cuneiform inscription is engraved behind the wild goats, in the upper image field. The inscription is framed and separated by rulings. Below it is an elaborate cross-shaped symbol with floral motifs on its points.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- hill or mountain
- inscription: horizontally-set, two lines, cuneiform, framed and separated by rulings
- plant: tree with a zig-zag stem
- undetermined motif: cross-shaped, with floral motifs on its points
- wild goats (ibexes) (4): two large, rampant, and two small, reclining
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection British Museum
Museum number BM 129548 (1945,1013.92)
Condition, shape slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Middle Assyrian
Provenance ex-Southesk Collection; acquired from J.J Naaman, 1901
First occurence 1901
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 24.3, d: 11.6 (P 3.4)
Material and features quartz, chalcedony: pale grey with blue-grey inclusions
Style modelled
Scene animal, ritual
Writing system, language cuneiform: Akkadian
Transliteration

(1) KIŠIB mU-A-PAP



(2) A kur-ba-ni
Translation (1) Seal of Adad-apla-uṣur,
(2) son of Kurbani.
Bibliography

Carnegie 1908, 94 no. Qc11, p. 94 and pl. 8.



Carnegie, H., Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems. Formed by James Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. Edited by his DaughterLady Helena Carnegie in Two Volumes. Vol. I: Egyptian Assyrian Syrian Phoenician Greek Etruscan Roman – Vol. II: Sassanian Oriental Mesopotamian Babylonian Assyrian Persian Hittite Cyprian Cilician Mediæval Modern, London, 1908.



Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 130 no. MA 24 and pl. 24: MA 24 and pl. 57: MA 24.



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.