Stamp-cylinder seal: Two lion-griffins following each other (cylinder image) – roaring lion (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Two lion-griffins following each other (cylinder image) – roaring lion (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder image is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. Two lion-griffins follow each other. In front of each of them is a small, cactus-like stylised plant. The stamp image depicts a roaring lion.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- lion: roaring, on stamp image
- lion-grifins (2): roaring
- stylised plants (2): small, cactus-like
Subcategory cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Museum number AN1969.357
Culture Iranian, Urartian
First occurence 1969
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 19.5 (27 with loop); d: 14 (11.5 top) (loop handle with scalloped edge)
Material and features "dark grey serpentine"
Style linear
Scene animal
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Moorey – Gurney 1978, 57 no. 66 and pl. VIII.



Moorey, P. R. S. – Gurney, O. R.: "Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1963–1973". Iraq 40/1 (1978) 41–60.