Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx)

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Object no.	S01128
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling winged hero wearing a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic grasps the foreleg of a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx). Both figures wear horned headdresses. Between the two figures, a bird appears in the sky. Above the hybrid creature are the Sibitti (Pleiades) and below a fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- bird - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - hero: winged, wearing a horned headdress and a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic - fish - human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): rampant, raising a forepaw, wearing a horned headdress - Sibitti (Pleiades)
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	De Clercq Collection
Museum Number	De Clercq 306
Culture / Production Place	Neo-Assyrian
Provenance	ex-de Clercq Collection
First Occurrence	before 1888
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 36, d: 9
Material and features	"porphyre noir"
Style	linear
Scene	contest
Bibliography	De Clercq – Menant 1888, 177 no. 306 and pl. XXIX. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888.

Object history

Divine World Glyptics

Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza

Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx)

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