Seven Cylinder Seals with Nabu’s Symbol from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Iasenovskaia Anastasia A.
The article presents a publication of seven cylinder seals with Nabu’s symbol in the context of various compositions from the collection of the Department of the Ancient Orient of the Pushkin Museum. Among them are: a scene of libation, a scene with a sacred tree (two seals), an adoration scene in front of a seated goddess (two seals), an adoration scene in front of a goddess in the ring of her divine aureole (melammu), a chariot hunting scene — i.e., from the oldest composition types of the ninth century BC (the scene of libation and that with a sacred tree) to the compositions typical of the Assyrian art of the seventh century BC (the scene adoration in front of the goddess in the melammu aureole). The composition with a chariot is quite special not only for the presence of a stylized wedge, but also because of the highest craftsmanship and fineness of modeling.
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