Lion fighting winged horse over reclining foal
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A rampant lion clashes with a winged horse over a reclining foal. Between them is a small lightning fork on a stepped stand or mountain above an omega-shaped symbol. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- foal: reclining - lightning fork: on a stepped stand or mountain - lion: rampant, roaring - omega-shaped symbol - winged horse: rampant |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Museum number | BM 129572 (1945.1013.116) |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Southesk Collection; given to Southesk by Alexander C. lonides in August 1904 |
| First occurence | 1904 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 40.6, d: 15.8 (P 5.6) |
| Material and features | quartz, chalcedony: pink, veined black, fractures in the seal surface appear to have been caused by weathering along natural flaws |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | animal |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Carneige 1908, 108–109 no. Qc 35 and pl. 8. Carnegie, H., Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems. Formed by James Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. Edited by his DaughterLady Helena Carnegie in Two Volumes. Vol. I: Egyptian Assyrian Syrian Phoenician Greek Etruscan Roman – Vol. II: Sassanian Oriental Mesopotamian Babylonian Assyrian Persian Hittite Cyprian Cilician Mediæval Modern, London, 1908. Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 125 no. MA 7 and pl. 22: MA 7 and pl. 55: MA 7. Porada(†), E. – Collon, D., Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals IV: The Second Millennium BC (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 4), London, 2016. |