cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 134639
- Description
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Yellow with black inclusions limestone cylinder seal; the seal was probably very worn and has been recut more or less along the lines of the original design, leading to some peculiarities in the design. A robed figure with short, spiky hair, is seated facing right on a high-backed stool; he brandishes a horizontal bird or trident in his right hand above a crescent, and raises a ball in his left hand. Before him is an ‘L’ shape with a notched vertical on which a robed, possibly bearded figure seems to be kneeling on both knees facing him, with both hands extended. A smaller robed kneeling figure at a higher level sits back on his calves and raises both hands; he seems to have a feathered headdress and a ‘V’ set sideways behind his back may be wings. Behind, also facing left, is another figure with spiky hair who rides a long-tailed quadruped with a goat’s horn, and holds a dagger with a rounded pommel point downwards.
- Production date
- 2000BC-1000BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.36 centimetres
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Height: 2.21 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Worn, polished, with the ends convex.
- Acquisition date
- 1965
- Acquisition notes
- One of two cylinder seals deposited on 26/9/64 as item 1775.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134639
- Registration number
- 1965,0415.1