Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| 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 | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
| First occurence | 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. |