Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S04483 |
| Description of the seal image | A royal hero (spearman) wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe) aims his spear at a rampant lion (drawn like a dog). Behind them is a winged sun-disc above a human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) wearing a similar crown. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): raising a forepaw, crowned (cidaris) - lion: rampant, drawn like a dog - royal hero: spearman, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe) - winged sun-disc |
| 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 Hartwell 1527 |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| 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 | 2003 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | N/A |
| Material and features | N/A |
| Style | N/A |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Brett – Collon 2013, 140 no. Hartwell 1527. 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 preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by ZN and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN (20 March 2026). GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter |