Winged hero and hero fighting human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) above stylized tree while standing on two wild goats (ibexes)


Winged hero and hero fighting human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) above stylized tree while standing on two wild goats (ibexes)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded, four-winged hero grasps the foreleg of a human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx) with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while stepping on a reclining wild goat (ibex). He wears a broad-belted kilt decorated with a dot-in-square pattern. On the other side, a similarly-clothed bearded hero grasps the hind leg of the same hybrid creature with one hand and brandishes a weapon with the other. He also steps on the back of a wild goat and wears a rectangular headdress decorated with dots. Between the caprids is a stylised tree (rosette tree) with its branches arranged radially. Behind the heroes is a crescent moon above a flower or star and the spade of Marduk (marru).
Figures, motifs/symbols - crescent moon
- flower or star: globe-centred
- hero: bearded, wearing a rectangular headdress and a broad-belted kilt decorated with a dot-in-square pattern, brandishing a weapon
- human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): bearded
- spade of Marduk (marru)
- stylised tree (rosette tree): with its branches or leaves arranged radially, has offshoots at its base
- wild goats (ibexes) (2): reclining
- winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a broad-belted kilt decorated with a dot-in-square pattern, holding a sickle sword (scimitar)
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
Museum number BLMJ 2700 – BLMJ Seal 488
Condition, shape upper and middle sections are damaged by pitting
Culture Neo-Babylonian
First occurence in 1970's
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 20.8, d: 13.6 (11.4), barrel-shaped
Material and features "agate"
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Oshima 2015, 1–9 fig. 1.



Oshima, T.: “BLMJ 2700: A Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seal with a Mythological Battle A Question on the Identity of the Four-Winged God on Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Seals” Bible Lands e-Review 2015/S1, https://biblelandsreview.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/takayoshi-bler-2015-s1.pdf [accessed 26–03–2026].