Ahura Mazda emerging from winged sun-disc above two lion-dragons fighting each other in front of two royal heroes


Ahura Mazda emerging from winged sun-disc above two lion-dragons fighting each other in front of two royal heroes
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image Ahura Mazda emerges from the winged sun-disc above two rampant lion-dragons fighting each other. Behind the beasts stands a royal hero on either side, holding a spear. The lower four figures are set on a groundline.
Figures, motifs/symbols - deity: Ahura Mazda, emerging from the winged sun-disc, wearing a dentate crown (cidaris)
- groundline
- lion-dragons (2): rampant, horned, roaring
- royal heroes (2): wearing dentate crowns (cidarises) and Persian clothing (court robes), holding spears
- winged sun-disc: with divine bust and appendages
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo
Museum number N/A
Culture Achaemenid
First occurence 1991
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 31.3, d: 15.8
Material and features "banded agate" (in Japanese)
Bibliography

Ishida, ed., 1991, 37 no. III–4–12.



Ishida, K., ed.: Inshō no sekai. Kodai oriento bijutsu to rekishi no kataribe [The World of Seals. Narrators/Storytellers of the Visual Arts and History of the Ancient Near East]. Tokyo, 1991 [in Japanese].