| 1988-01-01 |
mKB |
Flat portion against the door and three rope impressions preserved as well as a small portion of a peg impression. Design: Entwined snake with head at the bottom of the coil. A long homed animal is reversed on the seal with its head next to that of the snake. The height of the cylinder seal was more than 2.3 cm. This door sealing has the best preserved design of the three door sealings which were rolled with this seal (i18 and i81). Boehmer (1965), has an entwined pattern (Pl. XXVII:321), but somewhat larger than this Mozan example with no other animal present; see also P1. LIII:639 and PI. VIII:85 (poorly preserved), the snake coil is extended in P1. LV:664 (Akk 111). In P1. XLIX:573 (Akk I) [same as Frankfort (1939) No. 5931 the coil‘is shown without the head. See also Buchanan (1966) P1. 246 (ED 111) and Frankfort (1955) P1. 56590,593. The M o m door sealing showing a snake coil has published parallels from Early Dynastic 111 and Akkadian I (Nos. 85, 573, 639, 664 in Boehmer 1965). The combination with a horizontally placed homed animal is not paralleled in the southern rendering of this theme. However, a seal which Boehmer classifies in the “Tigris” Group (No. 664) and dates to AkkIA shows a snake coil with a scorpion on either side of it, The scorpion toward the tail end of the snake coil is shown upright while the one on the end of the snake’s head is facing the snake; this is parallel in feeling at least to our homed animal being placed in what otherwise is an awkward reversed position with its head next to the snake’s. In both these cases (snake/horned animal and snake/scorpion) the animals appear to be in an antagonistic relationship to the snake. [Input: ZJ226_rL_si.j] |