Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02786 |
| Description of the seal image | A winged hero grasps a rampant lion-griffin or lion-dragon with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while trampling on the hybrid creature's hind leg. He wears a headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic decorated with both a dot-in-square and a hexagonal pattern. Behind the two figures is a vertically-set three-line cuneiform inscription. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- inscription: cuneiform, vertically set, three lines - lion-griffin or lion-dragon: rampant, head turned backwards, lion's tail - winged hero: bearded, winged, wearing a tasselled headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic decorated with both a dot-in-square and a hexagonal pattern, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Museum of Fine Arts Boston / MFA |
| Museum number | MFA 65.1661 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges; nearly half of the upper edge has been broken off, resulting in partial distortion of the figures |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Moussa Collection; purchased by the MFA from R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian (Little Falls, NJ) on 10 November 1965 |
| First occurence | before 1965 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 40, d: 16.5 |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform: Akkadian |
| Transliteration |
(three lines) |
| Translation | N/A |
| Bibliography |
MFA: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/163902/ [accessed: 13-11-2023]. |
| 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 GE 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). GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |