Two lion-griffins pursuing each other


Two lion-griffins pursuing each other
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image Two rampant lion-griffins pursue each other in an endless scene.
Figures, motifs/symbols - lion-griffins (2): rampant
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Iraq Museum
Museum number U 126
Condition, shape chipping partly distorts one figure
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur
Archaeological context E-nun-mah, upper soil
Registration number U 126
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 20, d: 9
Material and features white marble
Style cut
Scene animal, pursuing
Transliteration

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Bibliography

Legrain 1951, 42 no. 594 and pl. 35.



Legrain, L.: Ur Excavations, X: Seal Cylinders (Ur Excavations 10) London – Philadelphia, 1951.