Hero carrying lion on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero carries a lion on either side, one by its hind leg and one by its foreleg. He wears a belted tunic. Next to them is a Lydian symbol depicting a vertical line with crescent-shaped ends and an alphabetic inscription. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: bearded, wearing a belted tunic - inscription: alphabetic - lions (2): one inverted and one rampant, both roaring - Lydian symbol: vertical line with crescent-shaped ends |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Buffalo Museum of Science, formerly kept in the Herzfeld Collection |
| Museum number | BMS C15046 |
| Condition, shape | slightly damaged upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-Herzfeld Collection, acquired by Ernst E. Herzfeld (1879–1948) at Iran between 1923–1934, then sold to the museum by the Brummer Gallery (New York) in 1944 |
| First occurence | between 1923–1934 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 16, d: 10 |
| Material and features | "blue agate" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | alphabetic: two-column vertical Paleo-Phrygian inscription |
| Transliteration |
(1) mane (2) on: en |
| Translation |
1. mane(s)… 2. omen. |
| Bibliography |
Lerner 2018, 373–383, fig. 1a–b and fig. 2. Lerner, J.A..: "Preliminary Remarks on an Achaemenid Seal with a Phrygian Inscription". In: Pedde, Fr. – Shelley, N. (eds.) Assyromania and More In Memory of Samuel M. Paley. (marru 4) Münster 2018, 373–383. |