cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 129558
- Description
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Broadly banded, dark and pale brown-green chalcedony cylinder seal; antithetical group consisting of a winged hero in the centre, facing right, flanked by rearing lions which he grasps by a forepaw; above are an eight-rayed star and a crescent. The hero has hair, indicated by vertical lines from a line over his eye, a bun, a horizontally-striated beard, and four wings of equal length with double rows of feathers; he is bare-chested with pectoral muscles emphasized, and he wears a broad-belted, wrap-over kilt with a rounded corner, edged with double lines, with dot-in-double-square decoration. The lions have manes indicated by short vertical strokes and fringed with short lines, inverted "v"-shapes for the fur under their bellies, and their paws are marked by short, almost circular strokes; the tail of the right-hand lion curves over its back, but the tail of the lion on the left, probably because of lack of space, hangs between his legs. Badly weathered on one side.
- Production date
- 8thC BC(late)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.20 centimetres
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Height: 2.90 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair / poor; badly weathered on one side.
- Acquisition date
- 1945
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Southesk from Shemtob in 1888, said to have been acquired in Baghdad.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 129558
- Registration number
- 1945,1013.102
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Qc 21 (? Southesk collection no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Qy 21: 38 (? Southesk collection no.)