1.3.02026-10-11seal, seal impressionRådata3400266objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400266MM 1970:018Cylinder seal with vertical bore and slightly concave sides. Engraving in low relief depicting a deity, facing right, rising between twinned mountain peaks, with one leg raised and placed on the lower peak. He is wearing a flattened style, horned headdress and a long, pleated robe open in front, and holds what appears to be a serrated blade. At each side of him, a vertical pole-gate with horizontal bands is held open by bearded, attendant figures with heads turned backwards, and close shaven hair style or close fitting cap (which applies to the completely preserved figure). They wear long pleated skirts, open in front. A third, similar worshipper (?) figure, facing right, with the same beard and hairstyle, and wearing a long pleated skirt, carries a bird in one arm and raises the other arm. Opaque, greyish-green, fossilized coral.MM 1970:018, Purchased from G. O. Matsson (Mattson Coll. No. 350?). Purchased in Paris in 1969., Återtagande 2016, Ett sigill ligger i kolli 464. -Three impressions. -H. Merrillees catalogue 1995:VII.8. -This mythological scene is considered to represent the sun god – Shamash, in his dawn rising from the mountaintop to begin the day’s journey across the sky while the gates of heaven are open by the heavenly attendants. The MM cylinder differs from the Collon examples in that no ‘rays’ emerge from the shoulders of ‘Shamash’ and the attendants are without the single horned headdress., Worn. Large chip along the top edge obliterating the head of one of the figures., H. 3.45 cm, W. 1.9-2.05 cm, bore 0.55 cm., Deposited at Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala till 1998., -Buchanan, 1966, 65, nos. 345 – 347. -Collon, 1982, 84-85, nos. 169-177; 213., Iraq, Syria, 1998.0002, Museum GustavianumBrukad2334-2193 BC, AkkadianFunnenAsien, Syrien, Irak, Mesopotamia.image/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3652006/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3652007/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byUppgift om fotograf saknasStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3914234http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400266http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400266http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400266