Cylinder seal with Ninurta and a winged lion
Culture: Assyrian
Period: Neo-Assyrian period
Date: ca. 750-700 B.C.
Medium: Chalcedony
Dimensions:
height: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.636
Provenance: sold, by American Colony Stores, Jerusalem, to H. J. Lutcher Stark (1887-1965), Orange, TX, 1927; his bequest to the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, TX, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Published References
J. Powers and J. Johnston, eds., San Antonio Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection (San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2012), 31.
Label Text
On this seal the god Ninurta is attacking a winged lion, probably the monster Anzu, who threatened the supreme god Enlil's rule.
(J. Powers, 2015)
(J. Powers, 2015)
Not on view
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