Objekt:
Skarabäus (
§ 36-131), Steatit, 17 x 12,5 x 8 mm.
Darstellung:
Within an oval frame made in a ladder pattern are depicted in three horizontal registers nine motifs or designs: In the upper register is a four-winged mythical creature with lion’s head and a small sun disk above it (?) shown in en face, possibly during its landing, with a
šnw sign (or cartouche) or alternatively the sun disk between the upper and lower wings on each side. (At a first look one may think of a four-winged scarab, quite often represented on Phoenician style scarabs, cf. Lachish:
Tufnell et al. 1953: pl. 45,167; Samaria:
Rowe 1936: no. S.100; Khalde near Beirut:
Culican 1974: 197;
Avigad 1954: 236-238;
Ward 1967: 69-71 fig. 1;
Lemaire 1986: 307 fig 2b;
Sass/Uehlinger 1993: 214-216; for a human-headed scarab see
Galling 1941: 181f No. 63 =
Boardman 1971: 195 =
Sass/Uehlinger 1993: 215 fig. 88.) In the central register are two facing birds (probably falcons, cf. Megiddo:
Lamon/Shipton 1939: pl. 67,44 lower register; Megiddo:
Lamon/Shipton 1939: pl. 67,45 second and fourth register) with an Aegis of the goddess Bastet (or collar) behind the back of each of them. (The Aegis, a deep collar of beadwork, is usually surmounted by a lion’s or cat’s head [
Petrie 1914: 42 and No. 195a-n]; on the Phoenician style scarabs there is usually just a
nbw [S12] or
wsḫ [S11] sign; a good example with
Avigad 1954: 236f pl. 21,1
lš˒l, who misunderstands the sign, however, as a winged solar disk; cf. also Megiddo:
Lamon/Shipton 1939: pl. 63,44 in the central register; Megiddo:
Lamon/Shipton 1939: pl. 63,45 first and fifth register). In the lower register is another Aegis (or collar) flanked by two antithetic cobras (cf.
Lamon/Shipton 1939: pl. 67,44 -45).
Avigad 1954: Avigad N., 1954, Three Ornamented Hebrew Seals: IEJ 4, 236-238.
Boardman 1971: Boardman J., 1971, The Danicourt Gems in Péronne: Revue archéologique, 195-214.
Culican 1974: Culican W., 1974, A Phoenician Seal from Khaldeh: Levant 6, 195-198 = Culican 1986, 385-390.
Galling 1941: Galling K., 1941, Beschriftete Bildsiegel des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr. vornehmlich aus Syrien und Palästina: ZDPV 64, 121-202.
Lamon/Shipton 1939: Lamon R.S./Shipton G.M., 1939, Megiddo I. Seasons of 1925-1934, Strata I-V (OIP 42), Chicago.
Lemaire 1986: Lemaire A., 1986, Nouveaux sceaux nord-ouest sémitiques: Syria 63, 305-325.
Petrie 1914: Petrie W.M.F., 1914, Amulets, London, Nachdruck Warminster 1972.
Rowe 1936: Rowe A., 1936, A Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals and Amulets in the Palestine Archaeological Museum, Le Caire.
Sass/Uehlinger 1993: Sass B./Uehlinger Ch., eds., 1993, Studies in the Iconography of the North-West-Semitic Inscribed Seals (OBO 125), Freiburg Schweiz/Göttingen.
Tufnell et al. 1953: Tufnell O. et al., 1953, Lachish III (Tell ed-Duweir). The Iron Age, 2 vols., London.
Ward 1967: Ward W.A., 1967, Three Phoenician Seals of the Early First Millenium B.C.: JEA 53, 69-74.
Bibliographie:
Keel 1997b: 64f, Achsib Nr. 131.
Keel 1997b: Keel O., 1997b, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel. Von den Anfängen bis zur Perserzeit. Katalog Band I: Von Tell Abu Faraǧ bis ˓Atlit. With Three Contributions by Baruch Brandl (OBO.SA 13), Freiburg Schweiz/Göttingen.
Permanenter Link:
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