Hero grasping human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side


Hero grasping human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded hero grasps a human-headed winged lion (shedu, sphinx) on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, belted, tiered, open robe over a short tunic. On either side of his legs is a small, cactus-like stylised plant. Behind the rampant beasts is the winged sun-disc in the sky.
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: bearded, wearing a long, belted, tiered, open robe over a short tunic
- human-headed winged lions (shedus, sphinxes) (2): rampant, beardless, heads turned backwards
- stylised plants (2): small, cactus-like
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Halieis Publication Committee, Indiana University Archives
Museum number N/A
Condition, shape slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Neo-Babylonian, peripheral
Provenance found at an excavation in Halieis
Archaeological context residential: House D
Registration number HS 517
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 22, d: 12.2
Material and features "red to pinkish carnelian"
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Ault 2018, 368–369 and figs. 3 b–c.



Ault, Br.A.: "A Seal for Sam: A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Halieis, Greece". In: Pedde, Fr. – Shelley, N. (eds.) Assyromania and More In Memory of Samuel M. Paley. (marru 4) Münster 2018, 367–372.