Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02675 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded winged hero grasps a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side, each by the beard. He wears a long, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. The upper part of his garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern. Behind his legs is a rhomb, while behind the hybrid creatures are a corrected eight-rayed star and a crescent moon above a fish. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - fish: decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern - human-headed winged lions (shedus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, bearded - rhomb - star: eight-rayed, corrected - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
| Museum number | WAM 42.666 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges; surface faults partly distort the figures |
| 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: 35, d: 15 |
| Material and features | "carved chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Niederreiter – Lőrincz 2025, 128 fig. 33. Niederreiter Z. – Lőrincz H.: Catalogue of Cylinder Seals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Middle Assyrian and First-Millennium-BCE Seals Added to the Collection from 1909 Onward. (Antiqua et Orientalia 12 – Assyriologia 15) Budapest, 2025. WAM: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/19409/cylinder-seal-with-genius-and-human-headed-lions/ [accessed: 11-11-2023]. |
| 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 description of the object done by HL based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy; object data and description were finalized by ZN (03 March 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |