Bull striding towards tree
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bull strides towards a tree. In front of the bull is an eight-rayed star, while above it is a crescent moon next to a six-rayed star. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bull: striding - crescent moon - plant: tree - star 1: eight-rayed - star 2: six-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Museum number | BM 129484 (1945,1013.28) |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Southesk Collection; acquired from J .J . Naaman, 1899 |
| First occurence | 1899 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 30.6, d: 13 (P 4.5) |
| Material and features | hematite: steel-grey |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | animal |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Carnegie 1908, 50–51 no. Qa28 and pl. 2. 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. Collon – Porada 2016, 132 no. MA 30 and pl. 24: MA 30. 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. |