Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, winged hero grasps the foreleg of a rampant human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) with one hand and holds a sword-like weapon with the other. He wears a long, belted, open robe. The hybride creature wears a horned headdress or tiara. Between the two figures is a small, cactus-like stylised plant, while behind them is the winged sun-disc above a fish. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- fish - human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): rampant, bearded, wearing a horned headdress or tiara - stylised plant: small, cactus-like - winged hero: bearded, winged, wearing a long, belted, open robe, holding a sword-like weapon - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | modern impression kept in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington |
| Museum number | U.S.N.M. 158433 |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | original cylinder seal from Aintab, Syria, was owned by Frederick Stearns |
| First occurence | before 1926 (property of Frederick Stearns) |
| Material and features | "jade" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Casanowicz 1926, 11 and pl. 4: 3. 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. |