Stamp-cylinder seal: Griffin and lion-griffin pursuing each other (cylinder image) – animal or hybrid creature (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Griffin and lion-griffin pursuing each other (cylinder image) – animal or hybrid creature (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A griffin and a lion-griffin pursue each other, while an animal or a hybrid creature is depicted on the stamp image.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- griffin: crested, winged
- lion-griffin: roaring
- animal or a hybrid creature
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection The Morgan Library & Museum
Museum number Morgan Seal 839
Condition, shape slightly damaged upper and lower edges
Culture Achaemenid, Urartian
Provenance "acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908"
First occurence between about 1885 and 1908
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 20, d: 12
Material and features "grey marble" (with broken suspension loop)
Style linear
Scene animal
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Porada 1948, 105 no. 839 and pl. CXXVI.



Porada, E.: Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. I: Text – II: Plates. (The Bollingen Series 14) Washington, 1948.