Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
![Winged hero fighting griffin (modern [i.e., fake])](/uploads/galleries/3/0/d/1/original_30d11b5f0055162db89ab474aa13121e.JPG)
| Object no. | S04464 |
| Description of the seal image | A winged hero grasps the wing of a rampant griffin with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a conical headdress and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. Between the two figures is a crescent moon in the sky. Three superimposed rhombs appear behind the divine hero with a vertically-set, two-line cuneiform inscription beyond them. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - divine hero: bearded, winged, wearing a conical headdress and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a crosshatch pattern - griffin: rampant, winged, head turned backwards - inscription: two lines, vertically-set, cuneiform - rhombs (3): superimposed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde from 1967, formerly kept in the collection of Erwin Oppenländer |
| Museum number | FUB 153 |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian, other |
| Provenance | surfaced at auction in London in 1962, ex-Oppenländer Collection |
| First occurence | 1962 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 30, d: 15 |
| Material and features | "braun-roter Stein" |
| Authenticity (public) | modern (i.e., fake) |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform |
| Transliteration |
(two lines) |
| Translation | N/A |
| Bibliography |
Moortgat-Correns 1968, 288 no. 152 and pl. 51. Moortgat-Correns, U.: “Die ehemalige Rollsiegel-Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer”, Baghdader Mitteilungen 4 (1968) 233–289. |
| Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and description of the object done by HL based on the relevant publication provided, then object data and description were finalized by ZN (20 March 2026). HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter |