Hero fighting griffin over small quadruped
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A half-kneeling, bearded hero grasps the foreleg of a rampant griffin with one hand and brandishes a sword with the other. He wears a round headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe. A sickle sword (scimitar) hangs from his elbow, and there is another sword with a scabbard at his waist. Between the two figures is a small, reclining quadruped below and an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above the Sibitti (Pleiades) in the sky. A crescent moon appears above the griffin's wing. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - griffin: rampant, crested, winged - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a round headdress and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe, a sickle sword (scimitar) hangs from his elbow, has another sword in a scabbard at his waist - quadruped: reclining, head turned backwards - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Museum number | UM 61-5-19 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | excavated at Tepe Hasanlu, Southwestern Azerbaijan, Iran (Iron Age II period settlement of Hasanlu IVB |
| First occurence | excavated at Tepe Hasanlu, 1956-1977 |
| Registration number | HAS 60-13 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 46.3, d: 18 (perforation: 4.4) |
| Material and features | white chert(?); bronze pin in perforation; purple stains at both ends from copper/bronze caps (now missing) |
| Style | cut, drilled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Marcus 1996, 115–116 fig. 81 and no. 59 and pl. 18. Marcus, M.I.: Emblems of Identity and Prestige: The Seals and Sealings from Hasanlu, Iran: Commentary and Catalog. (University Museum Monograph 84. Hasanlu Special Studies 3) Philadelphia, 1996. |