Royal hero fighting lion while human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) stands behind him


Royal hero fighting lion while human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) stands behind him
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A royal hero (spearman) wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe) aims his spear at a rampant lion (drawn like a dog). Behind them is a winged sun-disc above a human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) wearing a similar crown.
Figures, motifs/symbols - human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): raising a forepaw, crowned (cidaris)
- lion: rampant, drawn like a dog
- royal hero: spearman, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe)
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury; Discover Bucks Museum; formerly kept in the collection of Dr John Lee (1783–1866)
Museum number AYBCM Hartwell 1527
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance ex-collection of Dr John Lee (1783–1866) then loaned (and later donated) to Buckinghamshire County Museum along with 19 other Mesopotamian seals in 1918
First occurence 2003
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter N/A
Material and features N/A
Style N/A
Scene contest
Bibliography

Brett – Collon 2013, 140 no. Hartwell 1527.



Brett, Th. – Collon, D.: "Dr Lee’s Collection of Cylinder Seals", Iraq 75 (2013) 119–142.