Winged hero grasping griffin and human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) (modern [i.e., fake])
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| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps a rampant griffin with one hand and a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) with the other, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs is a sitting dog and a bucranium. Behind the rampant beasts is the winged sun-disc in the sky. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bucranium - dog: sitting - divine hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic - griffin: winged, crested, rampant - human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): beardless, rampant - winged sun-disc: with appendages |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington |
| Museum number | U.S.N.M. 207956 |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian, other |
| Provenance | acquired in Hillah |
| First occurence | 1926 |
| Material and features | "quartzite onyx" |
| Authenticity (public) | modern (i.e., fake) |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Casanowicz 1926, 11 and pl. 4: 1.. 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. Niederreiter 2020, footnote 487 on page 197. Niederreiter Z.: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals in the Royal Museums of Art and History. I: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (Circa 1000–500 B.C.). (Antique et Orientalia 7 – Assyriologia 10) Budapest, 2020.
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