Hero fighting griffin
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling hero wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge grasps the raised foreleg of a griffin with his left hand and brandishes a straight weapon (possibly a dagger) in his raised right hand. Behind the two figures are an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above a bird and a rhomb, while between them is a wedge above and a fish below. Above the hybrid creature is a crescent moon next to the Sibitti (Pleiades). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - fish - griffin: rampant, winged - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, holding a dagger - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred - wedge: cuneiform |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde from 1967, formerly kept in the collection of Erwin Oppenländer |
| Museum number | FUB 116 |
| Condition, shape | slightly damaged upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Oppenländer Collection |
| First occurence | 1968 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 29, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "schwarzer Stein" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Moortgat-Correns 1968, 276 no. 119 and pl. 48. Moortgat-Correns, U.: “Die ehemalige Rollsiegel-Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer”, Baghdader Mitteilungen 4 (1968) 233–289. |