Dual scene: Contest scene depicting Persian hero fighting lioness/Cultic scene depicting worshipper kneeling before hieroglyphic signs


Dual scene: Contest scene depicting Persian hero fighting lioness/Cultic scene depicting worshipper kneeling before hieroglyphic signs
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The seal image comprises two scenes. The contest scene depicts a beardless hero grasping a rampant lioness by the throat with one hand and holding a mace in the other. He wears Persian clothing (court robe). The cultic scene shows a worshipper kneeling before various hieroglyphic signs.
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: beardless, wearing Persian clothing (court robe), holding a mace
- inscription: hieroglyphic signs
- lion: lioness, rampant
- worshipper: bald, kneeling, has a shawl around his neck
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection N/A
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance formerly owned by the comte de Caylus
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter N/A
Material and features "chalcédoine saphirine"
Style modelled
Scene contest, cultic, dual
Writing system, language hieroglyphic signs
Bibliography

Lajard 1847, 8 Planche XXX: no. 2 and pl. XXX: 2.



Lajard, F.: Introduction à l’étude du culte public et des mystères de Mithra en orient et en occident. Paris, 1847.