Two Seals: Stamp Seal Showing the Royal Hero in Combat with a Winged Bull (Top); Stamp Seal Showing the Royal Hero in Combat with Lion-Griffins (Bottom) / Seals and impressions / Achaemenid

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Work Title: Two Seals: Stamp Seal Showing the Royal Hero in Combat with a Winged Bull (Top); Stamp Seal Showing the Royal Hero in Combat with Lion-Griffins (Bottom)
View Title: Seals and impressions
Creator/Culture: Culture: Achaemenid
Site/Repository: Repository: British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) ID: ANE 89893; ANE E 30755
Period/Date: Achaemenid
Media/Technique: chalcedony, carving
Dimensions: Top: height: 2.5 cm (.98 inches); diameter: 2 cm (.79 inches); Bottom: height: 2.8 cm (1.1 inches); diameter: 2.1 cm (.83 inches)
Subjects: Seals (Identifying artifacts); Male figures; Heroes; Battles; Lions; Griffins; Sphinxes (Mythology); Bulls; Fabulous beings with wings
Work Record ID: 547313
Image Record ID: 1304167
Digital filename: 09d001364
Classification Filing Number: 415H; K; 23RHBG; *.digitalonly
HART Image Order Number: 240172
Date Added/Updated: 2012-11-25 08:19:59

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Collection: History of Art, VRC Image Bank
Image Size: 3072 x 1637
File Size: 680 KB
Record: 1304167
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1304167/09d001364

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Full citation: History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collections. Image 1304167. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1304167/09d001364. April 23, 2024.