CIRCA 750-600 B.C.

细节

AN IMPORTANT NEO-ASSYRIAN CORNELIAN CYLINDER SEAL
CIRCA 750-600 B.C.
Showing the storm god, Adad, surrounded by a nimbus and the seven Pleiades, crowned by a star above and at his waist, armed with a bow at his shoulder and brandishing a weapon, and standing on the back of his attribute the roaring winged lion-griffin with scorpion tail, behind him stands a guardian winged griffin-demon holding a situla and a pine-cone for purification; facing the god is a bearded male worshipper, the owner of the seal, who stands with hands in a gesture of adoration, behind him stands a goddess; in the sky are a winged sun-disc, star and a crescent; a cuneiform inscription reads "Seal of Bel-lu-dari, eunuch of Shulmu-sharri"
1 13/16 in. (4.5 cm.) high

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拍品专文

Eunuchs were high-ranking servants employed only by the king or high officials; the owner of the above seal, Shulmu-sharri, must therefore have been one of the latter. During the period to which this seal dates, we know of a high official under King Sennacherib called Shulmu-sharri who governed the city Halzi-atbar, and was the royal officer who gave his name to the year 698 B.C. It is possible, therefore, that this man's eunuch was the owner of the above seal.