Hero grasping winged horse on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, bearded hero grasps a rampant winged horse on either side, each by the ear. He wears a brimmed or horned headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed and tasselled, open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his head is a six-rayed, globe-centred star and a crescent moon, respectively. Behind the hybrid creatures is the winged sun-disc above the Sibitti (Pleiades) and a rhomb. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a brimmed or horned headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed and tasselled, open robe over a short tunic - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - winged horses (2): rampant, heads turned backwards - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
| Museum number | WAM 42.430 |
| Culture | Neo-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: 45, d: N/A |
| Material and features | "neutral chalcedony" |
| Style | cut, modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Gordon 1939, 29 no. 92 and pl. XI. Gordon, C. H.: "Western Asiatic Seals in the Walters Art Gallery". Iraq 6/1 (1939) 3–34. WAM: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/38705/cylinder-seal-with-a-hero-kneeling-between-winged-horses/ [accessed: 12-11-2023]. |