cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 129564
- Description
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Black chlorite cylinder seal; an archer, kneeling on one knee and facing right, aims an arrow at a leaping moufflon or ibex that looks back at its assailant. Below the bow is the symbol of Marduk and behind the archer's back is a star. Short lines edge the archer's garment and indicate his hair and beard; his extended back leg has been recut over an abraded chip. There is an arrow in the animal's forehead and two more in its back; chipped, worn and abraded; lower end of perforation recessed.
- Production date
- 700BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.05 centimetres
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Diameter: 0.375 inches
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Height: 1.125 centimetres
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Height: 2.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to catalogue "the fine hatched edges of the garments are a hallmark of 'a distinctively Iranian provincial Neo-Assyrian style'.... two pararells in a similar style were found at Nimrud in the Ninurta Temple cache".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair / poor; chipped, worn and abraded; lower end of perforation recessed.
- Acquisition date
- 1945
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Southesk from J.J Naaman in 1901.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 129564
- Registration number
- 1945,1013.108
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Qy 27: 106 (Southesk Collection Number?)