Stamp-cylinder seal: Apkallu (winged genie) or divine hero following winged hybrid creature (cylinder image) – lion-griffin (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Apkallu (winged genie) or divine hero following winged hybrid creature (cylinder image) – lion-griffin (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder seal image depicts a four-winged apkallu (winged genie) or divine hero following a winged hybrid creature. Between the two figures is an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) above a star. Another similar plant appears in front of the hybrid creature, while beyond that are traces of motifs arranged above one another, including a rhomb and a crescent moon. The stamp image appears to depict a lion-griffin.
Figures, motifs/symbols - apkallu (winged genie) or divine hero: four-winged
- crescent moon: uncertain
- ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) (2)
- hybrid creature: winged, quadruped
- lion-griffin: uncertain, on stamp image
- rhomb: uncertain
- star
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection N/A
Condition, shape slightly damaged
Culture Urartian
Provenance art trade
First occurence 1981
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 34.6 (with loop), d: 16.9
Material and features Serpentin bis Talk
Style linear
Scene animal, contest
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Bleibtreu 1981, 83–84 no. 102.



Bleibtreu, E.: Rollsiegel aus dem Vorderen Orient. Zur Steinschneidekunst zwischen etwa 3200 und 400 vor Christus nach Beständen in Wien und Graz. Wien, 1981.