Winged hero grasping griffin and human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) (modern [i.e., fake])


Winged hero grasping griffin and human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) (modern [i.e., fake])
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. 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, belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs are a sitting dog and a bucranium, respectively. Behind the rampant beasts is the winged sun-disc in the sky.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bucranium
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- dog: sitting
- griffin: winged, crested, rampant
- human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): beardless, rampant
- winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Museum number U.S.N.M. 207940
Culture Assyro-Babylonian, other
Provenance acquired in Hillah
First occurence 1926
Material and features "porphyry"
Authenticity (public) modern (i.e., fake)
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Casanowicz 1926, 11 and pl. 4: 2.



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 488 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.