Seal

Museum number:
9-17356
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3905
Description:
Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.
Donor:
F. S. Goravanchi and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, Iranian Azerbaijan
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Seals (artifacts)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-17356, described as Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seal, accession number 9-17356, described as Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17356, described as Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.

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