Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02646 |
| Description of the seal image | A beraded hero grasps a rampant lion-griffin on either side, each by the throat. He wears a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic. Behind the hybrid creatures is an eight-rayed star above a vertically-set alphabetic inscription. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic - inscription: vertically-set, alphabetic - lion-griffins (2): rampant, donkey ears, bird tails, roaring - star: eight-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
| Museum number | WAM 42.827 – WAM C22 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Henry Walters Collection (Baltimore); inherited by Sadie Jones (Mrs Henry Walters) in 1931 (New York); purchased by Joseph Brummer (Paris and New York) in 1941; purchased by The Walters Art Museum in 1941 |
| First occurence | before 1931 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 15, d: 9 |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | alphabetic: South Arabic |
| Transliteration |
1. frby |
| Bibliography |
Gordon 1939, 29–30 no. 96 and pl. XII. Gordon, C. H.: "Western Asiatic Seals in the Walters Art Gallery". Iraq 6/1 (1939) 3–34. For the seal legend, see Sass 1991, 49–50 fig. 26. Sass, B.: Studia Alphabetica: On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 102) Freiburg, Schweiz – Göttingen, 1991. WAM: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/2893/cylinder-seal-with-a-hero-holding-two-beasts-2/ [accessed: 12-11-2023]. |
| 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 preliminary description of the object done by GWN based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN (03 March 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai, GWN – Gábor Winkler-Nemes |