Home›Sources›Achaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum)SourcesAchaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum)Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-08-18Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Achaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/commons-achaemenid-cylinder-seal-hillah-britishmuseum.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Achaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/commons-achaemenid-cylinder-seal-hillah-britishmuseumCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-achaemenid-cylinder-seal-file-record-wik, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Achaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/commons-achaemenid-cylinder-seal-hillah-britishmuseum}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe Wikimedia Commons file description page for a photograph of an Achaemenid cylinder seal of grey-blue chalcedony, 6th to 4th century BC, from Al-Hillah in the Babel Governorate of Iraq, held by the British Museum, London. The description states the seal shows an Achaemenid king performing a religious ritual before two sphinxes, below the god Ahura Mazda, with a smaller secondary scene of a supernatural creature fighting two ibexes above two more sphinxes. Photographed by Wikimedia Commons contributor Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). The British Museum's own online collection search blocked automated reading.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (9 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationPublisherWell-attestedWikimedia CommonsURLWell-attestedhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achaemenid_cylinder_seal_showing_2_scenes._An_Achaemenid_king_before_2_sphinxes_(below_god_Ahura_Mazda)._Supernatural_creature_fighting_2_ibexes._6th-4th_century_BCE._From_Hillah,_Iraq._British_Museum_(cropped).jpgSource TypeWell-attestedreference-databaseAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2A photographer's own documentation of an object held by a named major museum, naming the material, period and provenance, independently corroborated by the Wikipedia article that separately uses the same photograph with the same museum attribution.Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested7Sacred Art & IconographyAchaemenid Cylinder Seal Depicting Ahura Mazda (British Museum)SourcesAchaemenid Cylinder Seal, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, British Museum)Holds1Sacred Art & IconographyAchaemenid Cylinder Seal Depicting Ahura Mazda (British Museum)General References1Sacred Art & IconographyAchaemenid Cylinder Seal Depicting Ahura Mazda (British Museum)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year