Hero grasping winged bull and griffin
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a rampant winged bull with one hand and a rampant griffin with the other, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- griffin: rampant, winged, crested - hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic - winged bull: rampant |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
| Museum number | WAM 42.441 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Henry Walters Collection; bequeathed to The Walters Art Museum by him in 1931 |
| First occurence | before 1931 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 35, d: 17 |
| Material and features | "partly greyish, partly brownish chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Gordon 1939, 30 no. 99 and pl. XII. Gordon, C. H.: "Western Asiatic Seals in the Walters Art Gallery". Iraq 6/1 (1939) 3–34. WAM: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/25329/cylinder-seal-with-a-contest-scene21/ [accessed: 12-11-2023]. |