Object Details
- Description
- Cylinder seal depicting a worshiper with raised hands and wearing a long dress. The worshiper is standing in front of a flaming altar, above which is a crescent moon. In front of the altar also stands a bearded warrior god, probably Ninurta, wearing a squared, star-topped, horned headdress and a vertically-striated, tiered, fringed, open robe over a fringed kilt. Behind Ninurta is a sacred tree, above which is a winged sun disc.
- Provenance
- From prior to 1973 to 1999
- Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Gorelick, Chevy Chase, Maryland, acquired by Dr. Leonard Gorelick before 1973. [1]
- From 1999
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Gorelick, Chevy Chase, Maryland. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Curatorial Remark 4 in the object record.
- [2] See Deed of Gift, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Gorelick
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 800 BCE
- Period
- Neo-Assyrian
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Gorelick
- Medium
- Chalcedony
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (.1): 1.4 x 5.6 cm (9/16 x 2 3/16 in)
- Type
- Tool and Equipment
