Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S04478 |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, quadruple-belted, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs are a fish and a rhomb, respectively. Behind the rampant beasts is a crescent moon in the sky. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - fish - hero: bearded, wearing a long, quadruple-belted, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic - human-headed winged lions (shedus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, beardless - rhomb |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury; Discover Bucks Museum; formerly kept in the collection of Dr John Lee (1783–1866) |
| Museum number | AYBCM: 2003.91.104 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-collection of Dr John Lee (1783–1866) then loaned (and later donated) to Buckinghamshire County Museum along with 19 other Mesopotamian seals in 1918 |
| First occurence | 19th century |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 29.3, d: 38-42 |
| Material and features | "neutral chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Brett – Collon 2013, 129 no. 104. Brett, Th. – Collon, D.: "Dr Lee’s Collection of Cylinder Seals", Iraq 75 (2013) 119–142. |
| Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and description of the object done by HL based on the relevant publication provided, then object data and description were finalized by ZN (20 March 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter |