Winged hero fighting human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) and steppin on a similar one
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps a rampant human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while stepping on another, reclining one. He wears a broad-belted, fringed kilt. Behind him is a crescent moon above a six-rayed star. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - human-headed winged lions (shedus, sphinxes) (2): beardless, one rampant and one reclining - star: six-rayed - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a broad-belted, fringed kilt, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Philadelphia Museum of Art; permanent loan in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, formerly kept in the Hilprecht Collection |
| Museum number | L-29-495A, F-29-6-188-136, HIL.CAT.182 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges, large chip partly distorts the hero's head |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Hilprecht Collection |
| First occurence | 1920 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26.3, d: 12.9 |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Weber 1920, 63 no. 307. Weber, O.: Altorientalische Siegelbilder. (Text – Abbildungen) (Der Alte Orient 17–18) Leipzig, 1920. Niederreiter 2020, 108 and 110 and fig. 6. Niederreiter Z.: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals in the Royal Museums of Art and History. |