stamp-cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 130670
- Description
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Black serpentinite stamp-cylinder seal; three two legged, winged monsters with bulbous rumps face each other on either side of a vertical fish. To the left is a goat-headed monster with a forward-curving horn, hooves and a scorpion's tail ending in a goat's head with splayed horns, following a lion-headed with prickled ears, paws and a scorpion's tail. To the right is a goat-headed monster with splayed horns, hooves and, instead of a tail, the head of a gazelle with a long, forward-curving horn. There is a crescent above the first monster, rosettes above the other two, and three stars around the fish. Line borders top and bottom. A similar monster, on the base, faces left and has the head of a bird of prey; the tail and feet are not clear. In front of the monster is a human head, wearing a round cap, facing right; above it are a rosette and crescent and below it is a star. The cylinder is unpierced and flares out towards the carved base; the stone loop is grooved and set on a raised disc.
- Production date
- 800BC-600BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.60 centimetres (at bottom)
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Diameter: 1.40 centimetres (at top)
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Height: 2.95 centimetres (with loop)
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Height: 2.10 centimetres (without loop)
- Location
- On display (G54/dc6/sA)
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 130670
- Registration number
- 1947,1018.2
