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Cylinder Seal with the Persian King Grasping Two Lions about 500 B.C. Unknown artist/maker Cylinder seals, which had been used for millennia in Mesopotamia and Iran, continued to be made in the Achaemenid Persian period (550-330 BC), but they are rare in Lydia. This example, however, is engraved in the precise style typical of the pyramidal Lydian-Achaemenid workshop. It shows the common motif of the Persian king grasping two lions, with the winged solar disk representing the Iranian god Ahura Mazda above, as well as a personal symbol of Lydian type. — J. Paul Getty Museum
Richard Meier
Detail · Los Angeles, United States · 1974
Photo: Unknown artist/maker · circa 500 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 5040×5310
Cylinder Seal with the Persian King Grasping Two Lions about 500 B.C. Unknown artist/maker Cylinder seals, which had been used for millennia in Mesopotamia and Iran, continued to be made in the Achaemenid Persian period (550-330 BC), but they are rare in Lydia. This example, however, is engraved in the precise style typical of the pyramidal Lydian-Achaemenid workshop. It shows the common motif of the Persian king grasping two lions, with the winged solar disk representing the Iranian god Ahura Mazda above, as well as a personal symbol of Lydian type.
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