Objekt:

 Rollsiegel, Hämatit (§ 357-360), 22,7 x 11 mm.

Datierung:

 1500-1325.

Herkunft:

 Syrien/Nordmesopotamien.

Sammlung:

 Fribourg, Sammlungen BIBEL+ORIENT, VR 1991.43; Ex-Sammlung Tabet.

Darstellung:

 A deity in a round horned cap with a bulbous protuberance at the back stands in an ascending postion over a couchant bull, holding out a dagger in one hand and another weapon in his other hand. Opposite him is a frontal Nude and Winged deity in a round cap standing on a couchant caprid and holding a gazelle in one hand and another horned quadruped in the other hand. The head of a horned quadruped is in front of the goddesse’s mount. Between them in the lower field and directly opposite the bull are a couchant lion supermposed by a griffin. A drill hole is before them. Above this group is a double scroll motif over which is a couchant quadruped. Linear borders.

Diskussion:

 [ergänzter Text aus Keel/Schroer 2004: Nr. 101: Im Gegensatz zu einer ähnlichen Begegnung in der Glyptik der Mittelbronzezeit (Keel/Schroer 2004: Nr. 70-71) bestimmen in der Spätbronzezeit nicht Erotik und Fruchtbarkeit, sondern Macht und Domination die Ikonographie der Begegnung].

Parallelen:

 Porada 1948: no. 1030: a similar winged figure.

Bibliographie:

 Keel/Schroer 1985: 132f, Nr. 101; Keel-Leu/Teissier 2004: 306, Nr. 376.

DatensatzID:

 420

Permanenter Link:

  https://bodo.unifr.ch/bodo/id/420