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Conical chalcedony stamp seal. Side view of bottom surface with carved hero and lion-griffin in combat. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Conical chalcedony stamp seal. View of bottom surface with carved hero and lion-griffin in combat. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Conical chalcedony stamp seal
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 119
- Date
- Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4527
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4527
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IAM 4527
- Material
- Chalcedony, Stone
- Object Type
- Jewelry and Ornaments, Seal
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Butler Tomb 22
- Locus
- Butler Tomb 22
- Description
- Small chalcedony pyramidal stamp seal, missing any mounting. The sealing surface is carved in intaglio with a heroic combat scene: The hero stands at right on a groundline, wearing Persian court robe and a crenellated crown, holding a short sword in his left hand and grasping a rampant winged horned lion-griffin with his right (Dusinberre). Height 1.7 cm, face 1.4 cm x 1.1 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, Tomb 22. “In the same tomb were found beads nos. 29 and 56” (Curtis).
- See Also
- Dusinberre, “Seals”.
- Bibliography
- Curtis 1925, no. 119; Dusinberre 2003, fig. 92.
- Author
- ED