Hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, quadruple-belted, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs are a fish and a rhomb, respectively. Behind the rampant beasts is a crescent moon in the sky. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - fish - hero: bearded, wearing a long, quadruple-belted, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic - human-headed winged lions (shedus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, beardless - rhomb |
| 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: 2003.91.104 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| 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 | 19th century |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 29.3, d: 38-42 |
| Material and features | "neutral chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Brett – Collon 2013, 129 no. 104. Brett, Th. – Collon, D.: "Dr Lee’s Collection of Cylinder Seals", Iraq 75 (2013) 119–142. |