Cylinder Seal
![An orange stone cylinder on which an engraving of a lion is visible next to the modern impression in clay of the entire seal's engaving, which shows not only the lion rearing up on its hind legs, but also a bearded figure grasping one of the lion's forelegs with one hand and holding a long, hooked implement with the other.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/cylinder-seal-hero-lion/@@images/8ead9c7e-9960-4d27-a19e-b6c15b0194b3.jpeg)
Cylinder Seal and Modern Impression
- Description:
- Cylinder seal and modern impression with a divine hero in contest with a lion
- Medium:
- Carnelian
- Location:
- Probably Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 3.4 cm; Diam. 1.5 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Babylonian Period, ca. 825–700 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- Morgan Seal 766
- Lender:
- The Morgan Library & Museum, New York