Lion
Depiction of a large muscular animal with a long tail, mane, and large teeth.
This category includes mammals, usually portrayed as verylarge and muscular in the torso, with large muscular legs, a mane placed on the neck, a long tail, large ears, the muzzle is long and the teeth are large. It is usually shown snarling, with its mouth open and teeth exposed.
Objects: Lion Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11490B | 30-12-50 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed. | |
| 9634 | (none) | (none) | B16935 | Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions | |
| 9652 | (none) | (none) | B16857 | Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting. | |
| 9298 | (none) | (none) | B17012 | Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani | |
| 10364 | (none) | (none) | B16872 | Cylinder Seal Greenish grey marble Hero: on either side a rampant bull and a rampant lion. Attributes: Crescent Moon, and star on two legged pole. | |
| 9064 | (none) | (none) | B16898 | Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively. | |
| 9183 | (none) | (none) | B16854 | Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani. | |
| 9661 | (none) | (none) | B16874 | Cylinder seal Marble Mottled Slightly concave Inscribed: - 2 lions rampant, crossed: behind each an attacking hero - beyond are two retainers. Upper register: inscription, lower register: rampant gazelle and hero. Inscription /......mu; Lugal-gis; My (?).... Lugal-gis. (HC. 207) | |
| 9166 | (none) | (none) | B16853 | Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base | |
| 10530 | (none) | (none) | B16747 | Cylinder Seal Shell Inscribed Naked bird-headed hero with sharp upstanding hair resembling plumes pulls a rampant antelope by the horns; before the antelope a pair of rampant lions crossed and beyond the lions a rampant ram reversed-head downwards. Below the ram a scorpion. Inscription reserved on an upper register: Lugal-sa(g)-pad-da). HC 211 | |
| 8476 | (none) | (none) | B16887 | Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front. | |
| 8513 | (none) | (none) | B16869 | Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription] | |
| 16554 | 31-43-34, 31-43-34 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-Ki(?)-dur(?)-sag(?) servant of... H.C. 30/II, 10 | |
| 8926 | (none) | (none) | B16888 | Cylinder seal. Lapis Lazuli. 2 registers. Above: 1 seated and 2 standing figures. Below: men [illegible] animals | |
| 8981 | (none) | (none) | B16852 | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: below: 1 man, fighting animals. Above, human figure with rampant animals on each side and inscription of NIN-TUR-NIN. | |
| 8416 | (none) | (none) | B16870 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Small piece missing near one end. Inscribed. Slightly concave. Two rampant lions back to back. Each is attacked by a naked bearded and horned hero. Between the 2 lions tails 3 vertical lines with rounded heads standing above a pair of spread wings? - thus [drawing] | |
| 15478 | 31-17-20 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion. | |
| 13552 | 31-17-125 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Crude cutting. | |
| 9028 | (none) | (none) | B16859 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 rampant lions crossed, on either side of them a rampant bull - also a star. | |
| 6160 | (none) | (none) | B16286, B16286 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Not fully paved. Lion attacked by two men 2 lines of defaced inscription. About BC 2100. Required for Vol. VII written. | |
| 7000 | (none) | (none) | B16309 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion attacked by two heroes - (like Gilgamesh) 2 posts (supports for emblems) | |
| 6406 | (none) | (none) | B16304 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion attacked by two naked men. Crescent, goose, scorpion. About BC 2400. | |
| 8714 | (none) | (none) | B17033 | Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle? | |
| 11448 | 30-12-22 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. 2 winged animals, heraldically crossed. | |
| 234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. |
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