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English: 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.
Date circa 500 BC
Source https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103V05?altImage=73408f41-288e-4e22-beac-e522810624b4
Author Unknown artist/maker

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