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| Keywords: Iranian - Cylinder Seal - Walters 42775.jpg 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 between 550 330 BC Achaemenid chalcedony cm 2 8 1 4 accession number 42 775 38841 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 Ancient Persia The Art of an Empire The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; University Art Museum University of Texas at Austin Austin 1978 place of origin Iran Walters Art Museum license Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Ahura Mazda Art of Iran Reliefs of griffins Middle East sphinxes Iranian Lion-Griffin Scene Walters 42775-No 2 Archaeological seal impressions Animals in art of the ancient Near East Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
