Cylinder Seal with Figures and Tree

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2000.194.16
Title: Cylinder Seal with Figures and Tree
Classification: Seals
Work Type: seal
Date: 883-612 BCE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Mesopotamia
Period: Neo-Assyrian period
Culture: Neo-Assyrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/169384

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Diorite

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Hans Silvius von Aulock, Istanbul; sold [through Christie's, New York, June 13, 2000, no.545] to Harvard University Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr. and Purchase through the generosity of Sol Rabin and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year: 2000
Object Number: 2000.194.16
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Beardless diety in horned-headdress and front-open skirt stands with both hands raised; the upper body of the deity is surrounded by dots forming like a halo. Before the deity stands a bearded worshipper in a long fringed robe. Between the two figures appears to be a sacrificial table or altar. Star, crescent and the Pleiades are in the terminal field.

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