Winged hero fighting griffin beside winged sun-disc above stylised tree (rosette tree) (modern [i.e., fake])


Winged hero fighting griffin beside winged sun-disc above stylised tree (rosette tree) (modern [i.e., fake])
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded winged hero grasps the wing of a rampant griffin with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a round headdress and a long, triple-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic decorated with a dot-in-square pattern. Behind the hero is a stylised tree (rosette tree) with tendrils on its sides. A vertically-set cuneiform inscription is engraved between the griffin and the tree.
Figures, motifs/symbols - griffin: rampant, winged, crested, head turned backwards
- inscription: vertically-set, cuneiform
- stylised tree (rosette tree): with tendrils on its sides
- winged hero: bearded, winged, wearing a round headdress and a long, triple-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic decorated with a dot-in-square pattern, holding a sickle sword (scimitar)
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Museum number U.S.N.M. 207937
Culture Neo-Babylonian, other
Provenance acquired in Hillah
First occurence before 1926
Material and features "chalcedony"
Authenticity (public) modern (i.e., fake); for the pattern, see S02123 (ZN)
Style modelled
Scene contest
Writing system, language cuneiform: Akkadian
Transliteration

1. dAMAR.UTU PAB ZI



2. TIN BA-ša2
Translation 1. O Marduk, preserve life,
2. grant (me) health!
Bibliography

Casanowicz 1926, 11 and pl. 3: 6.



Casanowicz, I.M., “The Collection of Ancient Oriental Seals in the United States National Museum”, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 69/4 (1926), 1–23.