cylinder seal;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- 126377
- Description
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Streaked, black and red-black magnetite cylinder seal. A bare-headed figure in the flounced garment of a deity, with a ladder-patterned border across the shoulder, is seated facing right on a chair with a low curved back, and raises his hand in which he holds a pointed leaf or the curved weapon generally held by the storm god, and perhaps a flower, but this last may be due weathering. Facing him is a figure with one hand raised and one arm folded, wearing a flaring, flat-topped cap and circlet, and a robe with a flaring fringe at the bottom. There follows a figure with bent arm, with short curly hair and a circlet, who wears a mantle with rolled borders. Set vertically between these two figures are a star, perhaps a pyxis (damaged) and a fish. A secondary motif is divided into two registers by a horizontal four-coil, two-strand Z-guilloche between two horizontal lines. Above: Two confronted seated hares with a vertical line between them; to the left are two vertical leaf-like motifs in a crescent – perhaps a simplified hand or bread (cf. CLS 8 BM 129585). Below: A recumbent hare faces an aggressive hare that may be attacking it. Traces of line borders top and bottom.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.54 centimetres
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Height: 1.60 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The ends cut down at an angle, perhaps for stringing as a necklace, and are chipped.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- One side badly weathered and chipped,
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 126377
- Registration number
- 1938,0727.281
