Image: Iranian - Cylinder Seal - Walters 42775 - Side E
Description: (CORRECTED description: Seated King, Man, + Inscription) (Incorrect-Two uses of 42775)Although the Achaemenids used stamp seals for private documents, cylinder seals continued to be used for official royal business. This seal depicts the king fighting a lion-griffin in two scenes. First, he engages in close combat with the lion-griffin. Second, the king, standing on a reclining sphinx, aims his bow at the mythical beast, also standing on a sphinx. Between them is the benign god Ahura Mazda in an oval cartouche, with a winged disk above.
Title: Cylinder Seal
Credit: Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
Author: Anonymous (Iran)Unknown author
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