Stamp-cylinder seal: Rampant hunting dog (hound) (cylinder image) – reclining human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Rampant hunting dog (hound) (cylinder image) – reclining human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder seal image depicts a rampant hunting dog (hound) between two drill holes. The stamp image shows a reclining human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx).
Figures, motifs/symbols - dog (hound): rampant
- globes (2): large drill holes
- human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): reclining
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection Musée du Louvre
Museum number Sb 959
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance excavated at Susa
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 18, d: 12
Material and features schiste gris-brun
Style linear
Scene animal
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Bibliography

Amiet 1972, 286 no. 2219 and pl. 190.



Amiet, P.: Glyptique susienne des origines à l’époque des perses achéménides. Cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques découverts à Suse de 1913 à 1967. I: Texte – II: Planches (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran 43: Mission de Susiane) Paris, 1972.