Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps the foreleg of a semi-rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) with one hand and brandishes a weapon in the other. He wears a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. The hybride creature is stepping on an aryballos with two streams flowing out of it. Above its wings is a crescent moon. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- aryballos: with two streams of water flowing out of it - crescent moon - human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): bearded, semi-rampant - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Iraq Museum |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | found at an excavation in Warka (Uruk) |
| First occurence | before 1974 (excavation) |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 24, d: 10 |
| Material and features | "Bergkristall" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Lenzen 1974, 35 no. W 21937 and pl. 23: f. Lenzen, H.J.: XXV. vorläufiger Bericht über die von dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut und der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft aus Mitteln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft unternommenen Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Winter 1966/1967. (Deutsches Archäoligisches Institut. Abteilung Baghdad) Berlin, 1974. |