Hero grasping lion-griffin on each other
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A beraded hero grasps a rampant lion-griffin on either side, each by the throat. He wears a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic. Behind the hybrid creatures is an eight-rayed star above a vertically-set alphabetic inscription. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic - inscription: vertically-set, alphabetic - lion-griffins (2): rampant, donkey ears, bird tails, roaring - star: eight-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
| Museum number | WAM 42.827 – WAM C22 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| 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: 15, d: 9 |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | alphabetic: South Arabic |
| Transliteration |
1. frby |
| Bibliography |
Gordon 1939, 29–30 no. 96 and pl. XII. Gordon, C. H.: "Western Asiatic Seals in the Walters Art Gallery". Iraq 6/1 (1939) 3–34. For the seal legend, see Sass 1991, 49–50 fig. 26. Sass, B.: Studia Alphabetica: On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 102) Freiburg, Schweiz – Göttingen, 1991. WAM: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/2893/cylinder-seal-with-a-hero-holding-two-beasts-2/ [accessed: 12-11-2023]. |