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MM 13733 :: seal impression, seal

Object description: Cylinder seal. Worship of deity with symbols: goddess of (?) war in full profile faces right. She wears a square shaped headdress with hair at back of neck, from her shoulders a bow and another type of weapon (?) protrude. Her torso is surrounded by a nimbus and she raises her hands. Before her stands in full profile a regal figure bearded, wearing a polos type headdress, wearing a fringed garment (only top part is extant-see above), his hands are also raised. In between stands a table or (?) altar with a bird (?) goose in the centre and at the sides an (?) egg and a pile of (?) flat bread. In that the field above, seven dots, the Pleides and the crescent. Helen Merrillees catalogue 1995.

Data elements
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Inventory number

MM 13733

Serie nummer

1172

Object

seal impression; seal

Material

Stone. Serpentinite - Opaque, black in colour.

Material, Swedish

Serpentin; Bergart; Sten

Acquisition

Charles Molin Collection Series nos. 13729, 13730, 13731, 13732, 13733, 13734, 13735 (7 cylinders). American/Swede whose the collection was given to the Medelhavsmuseet in 1943.

Acquisition, Swedish

Gåva från Charles Molin 1943.

Description

Cylinder seal. Worship of deity with symbols: goddess of (?) war in full profile faces right. She wears a square shaped headdress with hair at back of neck, from her shoulders a bow and another type of weapon (?) protrude. Her torso is surrounded by a nimbus and she raises her hands. Before her stands in full profile a regal figure bearded, wearing a polos type headdress, wearing a fringed garment (only top part is extant-see above), his hands are also raised. In between stands a table or (?) altar with a bird (?) goose in the centre and at the sides an (?) egg and a pile of (?) flat bread. In that the field above, seven dots, the Pleides and the crescent. Helen Merrillees catalogue 1995.

Period

Neo-Assyrian – 9th-8th Centuries BC.

Name - Acquired from

Molin, Charles

Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Cf Publications

Parallels: Buchanan 1966 pp. 112-113 Nos. 635-638 has the same type of worship or reverence at an altar before a deity but not exactly similar to No. 5 (Check Porada and Collon)

Length / Längd

13mmwouldbeapprocm

Width / Bredd

16 cm

Dimensions

16 x 13 mm (would be approx. 32 mm), bores 3 mm.

Condition

Condition: worn and lower half broken off.

Original register

WestAsia

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MM 13733 :: seal impression, seal

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