Winged hero fighting griffin (modern [i.e., fake])

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	A winged hero grasps the wing of a rampant griffin with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a conical headdress and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. Between the two figures is a crescent moon in the sky. Three superimposed rhombs appear behind the divine hero with a vertically-set, two-line cuneiform inscription beyond them.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- crescent moon - divine hero: bearded, winged, wearing a conical headdress and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a crosshatch pattern - griffin: rampant, winged, head turned backwards - inscription: two lines, vertically-set, cuneiform - rhombs (3): superimposed
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde from 1967, formerly kept in the collection of Erwin Oppenländer
Museum number	FUB 153
Condition, shape	slightly worn
Culture	Assyro-Babylonian, other
Provenance	surfaced at auction in London in 1962, ex-Oppenländer Collection
First occurence	1962
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 30, d: 15
Material and features	"braun-roter Stein"
Authenticity (public)	modern (i.e., fake)
Style	linear
Scene	contest
Writing system, language	cuneiform
Transliteration	(two lines)
Translation	N/A
Bibliography	Moortgat-Correns 1968, 288 no. 152 and pl. 51. Moortgat-Correns, U.: “Die ehemalige Rollsiegel-Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer”, Baghdader Mitteilungen 4 (1968) 233–289.