Hero fighting human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a headband and a long, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic. The rampant beasts wear horned headdresses with fleur-de-lis on top. On either side of the hero's legs is a rhomb, while behind the sphinxes is an eight-rayed star above an ankh. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- ankh - hero: bearded, wearing a headband and a long, tiered, fringed, and tasselled open robe over a short tunic - human-headed winged lions (lamassus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, bearded, wearing horned headdresses with fleur-de-lis on top - rhombs (2) - star: eight-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
| Museum number | E 306 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ceded to the museum by Ernest Chantre in April 1893; collected by Ernest Chantre with Madame Chantre and Mr. Alfred Boissier at the slopes of Büyükkale, Boghazköy, before 1893 |
| First occurence | before 1893 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 43.1, d: 18.3 (Delaporte 1939: 30 x 17 mm) |
| Material and features | "calcédoine taillée et gravée" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Delaporte 1939, 911, no. 35, pls. 1 and 5: 35. Delaporte, L.: "Intailles orientales au Palais des Arts de la ville de Lyon". In: Amis et ses élèves (eds.), Mélanges syriens offerts à Monsieur René Dussaud. Tome 2 (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 30) Paris, 1939, 907–912. |