Hero fighting winged bull

Object no.	S01234
Description of the seal image	A bearded hero wearing a belted tunic grasps a foreleg of a rampant, winged bull with his left hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in his lowered right hand. Between the two figures, there is a fish, while behind them, an eight-rayed star above a globe and an unidentified symbol.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- fish - globe - hero: wearing a belted tunic; with a sickle sword (scimitar) in his lowered right hand - star: eight-rayed - unidentifed symbol - winged bull: rampant, winged
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	Musée historique et archéologique de l’Orléanais
Museum Number	C.341
Condition, shape	worn
Culture / Production Place	Neo-Assyrian
Provenance	said to be from Mesopotamia; sent by the missionary Father Lhuillier; collection assembled by abbé Desroches
First Occurrence	around 1884 (Desroches Collection)
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 18, d: 9
Material and features	N/A
Style	linear
Scene	contest
Bibliography	Delaporte 1909, 96 no. 23. Delaporte, L.: "Les cylindres orientaux du Musée historique de l’Orléanais". In: Hilprecht Anniversary Volume: Studies in Assyriology and Archaeology Dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of His Doctorate and His Fiftieth Birthday (July 28) by his Colleagues, Friends and Admirers. Leipzig, 1909, 83–100.

Object history

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