Royal hero fighting lion beside Ahura Mazda emerging from winged sun-disc above wheel
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The royal hero grasps a lion by its hind leg and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe). Above them is a crescent moon. Next to the fighting figures, Ahura Mazda emerges from a four-winged sun-disc above a large, eight-spoked wheel. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - deity: Ahura Mazda, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris), emerging from the winged sun-disc - lion: inverted, head turned backwards - royal hero: bearded, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris) and Persian clothing (court robe) - wheel: large, eight-spoked - winged sun-disc: four-winged, with divine bust and appendages |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | N/A |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | found in Pasargadae |
| First occurence | 1978 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26, d: N/A |
| Material and features | stone |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Stronach 1978, pl. 162 a–b. Stronach, D.: Pasargadae: A report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. Oxford, 1978. Collon 2005, 90–91 no. 425. Collon, D.: First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. [First published in 1987] London, 2005. |