English: (CORRECTED description: Seated King, Man, + Inscription) (Incorrect-Two uses of 42775)Although
the Achaemenids used stamp seals for private documents, cylinder seals continued to be used for official royal business. This seal depicts the king fighting a lion-griffin in two scenes. First, he engages in close combat with the lion-griffin. Second, the king, standing on a reclining sphinx, aims his bow at the mythical beast, also standing on a sphinx. Between them is the benign god Ahura Mazda in an oval cartouche, with a winged disk above.
== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Iranian |title = ''Cylinder Seal'' |description = {{en|Although the Achaemenids used stamp seals for private documents, cylinder seals continued to be used for off...