Hero grasping human-headed winged lions (shedu and lamassu, sphinxes)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (shedu and lamassu, sphinxes) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs are a fish and a rhomb, respectively, while behind the rampant beasts is an eight-rayed star in the sky. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, open robe over a short tunic - human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx): rampant, beardless - human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx): rampant, bearded - fish - rhomb - star: eight-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde from 1967, formerly kept in the collection of Erwin Oppenländer |
| Museum number | FUB 114 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | surfaced at auction in London in 1962, ex-Oppenländer Collection |
| First occurence | 1962 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 25, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "Karneol" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Moortgat-Correns 1968, 278 no. 124 and pl. 49. Moortgat-Correns, U.: “Die ehemalige Rollsiegel-Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer”, Baghdader Mitteilungen 4 (1968) 233–289. |