Stamp Seal with a King Fighting a Winged Lion

late 6th-mid 4th century BCE (Achaemenid)

1.4 cm 1.5 cm

Citation

This stamp seal depicts a king, on the right and holding a dagger in his left hand, battling a rampant lion with wings, on the left.

Artifact

id	id 33304
contentType	contentType object
stage	stage normalized
provenance	provenance Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 44; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
rightsUri	rightsUri CC0
language	language en
pageCount	pageCount 0
source	source import

Source image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.154

Culture

Achaemenid

Medium

chalcedony

Genre

seals (artifacts)

createdBy

Iranian