Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx)

Object no. S01128
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling winged hero wearing a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic grasps the foreleg of a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx). Both figures wear horned headdresses. Between the two figures, a bird appears in the sky. Above the hybrid creature are the Sibitti (Pleiades) and below a fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bird
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moon
- hero: winged, wearing a horned headdress and a long, broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge over a short tunic
- fish
- human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): rampant, raising a forepaw, wearing a horned headdress
- Sibitti (Pleiades)
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection De Clercq Collection
Museum number De Clercq 306
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance ex-de Clercq Collection
First occurence before 1888
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 36, d: 9
Material and features "porphyre noir"
Style linear
Scene contest
Bibliography

De Clercq – Menant 1888, 177 no. 306 and pl. XXIX.



De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888.

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 preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai
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