cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 89336
- Description
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Black hematite cylinder seal. Two male figures, one of them holding a crook upright, flank a small male figure under a notched arch above which is a winged disc. All the figures are beardless, have short hair, and wear fringed garments (note the additional decorated neckline of the figure on the left), but the robe of the central figure has a pattern slightly resembling the flounces of divine garments. The figure is flanked by a hand turned downwards on the left, and a fish head upwards on the right. A secondary motif is divided into two registers by a single horizontal line. Above: A frontal bird of prey with spread wings flanked by two horizontal palmettes. Below: A mountain goat reclines towards the left with a papyrus blossom on an undulating stem before it, and a horizontal human hand above its back. Line borders top and bottom
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11.70 millimetres
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Height: 21.50 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The patterning of the dress of the figure under the arch is most unusual. For the crook, see CLS 23 (BM 128594)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired from W.D. Cutler; said to be from “Cyprus (?)”, but this seems to be a proposed stylistic attribution rather than a provenance.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 89336
- Registration number
- 1884,0630.4