Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, belted, tiered and fringed robe over a short tunic. In front of his legs is a rhomb. The bronze stamp seal image depicts a reclining quadruped below a crescent moon.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- crescent moon (stamp seal image) - hero: bearded, wearing a long, belted, tiered and fringed robe over a short tunic - human-headed winged lions (lamassus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, beardless - quadruped: reclining (stamp seal image) - rhomb
Subcategory	cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection	Museum of Fine Arts Boston / MFA
Museum number	MFA 65.1426
Condition, shape	slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture	Assyro-Babylonian
Provenance	ex-Moussa Collection; purchased by the MFA from R. Moussa, through Ali Tehranian (Little Falls, NJ) on 10 November 1965
First occurence	before 1965
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 26, d: 13.5
Material and features	"carnelian, with two bronze caps"
Style	modelled
Scene	contest
Bibliography	MFA: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/163882/ [accessed: 13-11-2023].