Hero fighting lion-griffin and royal hero fighting lion


Hero fighting lion-griffin and royal hero fighting lion
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The seal image depicts two fighting couples. A bearded hero grasps a rampant lion-griffin by the throat with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) with the other. He wears a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. The royal hero grasps a small lion with one hand and holds a dagger with the other. He wears a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe) and has a quiver full of arrows on his back.
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic, holding a sickle sword (scimitar)
- lion: small, head turned backwards, snarling
- lion-griffin: rampant, donkey ears, bird tail, snarling
- royal hero: bearded, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe), has a quiver full of arrows on his back, holding a dagger
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Museum of Fine Arts Boston / MFA
Museum number MFA 34.1447
Culture Achaemenid, Neo-Babylonian
Provenance ex-R. S. Cooke Collection (Harrow Hill, Middlesex, England); purchased by the MFA from him on 6 December 1934
First occurence before 1934
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 37, d: 20
Material and features "lapis lazuli"
Style linear
Scene contest
Bibliography

Frankfort 1939, 220–221 and pl. XXXVII: a. 



Frankfort, H.: Cylinder Seals: A Documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East, London, 1939.



MFA: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/247211/ [accessed: 13-11-2023].