Winged hero grasping winged bull and human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx)

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded winged hero grasps a rampant winged bull with one hand and a rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) with the other, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. The upper part of his garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern. On either side of his legs are a fish and a rhomb, respectively. Behind the hybrid creatures are an eight-rayed star in the sky and the stylus of Nabu on a stand below. A three-letter alphabetic inscription is engraved between the hind legs of the winged bull.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - fish - human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): rampant, beardless - inscription: alphabetic - rhomb - star: eight-rayed - stylus of Nabu: on a stand - winged bull: rampant - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, 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	Shlomo Moussaieff Collection
Museum number	N/A
Condition, shape	chipped upper and lower edges
Culture	Assyro-Babylonian
Provenance	ex-Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, purchased by him in London
First occurence	before 2000
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 39.4, d: 15.3
Material and features	"pink marbled agate"
Style	modelled
Scene	contest
Writing system, language	alphabetic: Aramaic
Transliteration	1. ḥbb
Translation	1. Ḥabib.
Bibliography	Deutsch – Lemaire 2000, 129 no. 122. Deutsch, R. – Lemaire, A.: Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection. Tel Aviv, 2000.