Winged scropions with bird feet flanking censer

"840 and 841 perpetuate Mesopotamian tradition in their rigidly symmetrical and centralized composition. Strictly speaking, 840 can be classified as Achaemenian only because its motif--two animals or monsters flanking a tree--does not occur on late Neo-Babylonian cylinders, while it is found in seal impressions of unquestionably Achaemenian style (Philadelphia 850). Seal 841 is more kefinitely characterized as Achaemenian by the fact that it shows a censer between two scorpion-men. This censer, which seems to be covered with a lid attached to the stand by means of a chain, is a typically Achaemenian ritual object often depicted in Achaemenian cylinders."--Porada, CANES, p. 105
Conical seal with rounded top and slightly convex oval base.