Hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero wearing a double-belted tunic grasps two rampant wild goats (ibexes) by their ears. Above the animal on the right is a crescent moon. There is a short ground line below the hero. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - ground line: short - hero: bearded, wearing a double-belted tunic - wild goats (ibexes) (2): rampant, heads turned backwards |
| Subcategory | bead cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Museum number | Morgan Seal 769 |
| Condition, shape | damaged upper and lower edges; barrel-shaped |
| Culture | Achaemenid, Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | "acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908" |
| First occurence | between about 1885 and 1908 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26, d: 7 (12) |
| Material and features | "banded agate" |
| Style | cut, modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1948, 93 no. 769 and pl. CXVI. Porada, E.: Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. I: Text – II: Plates. (The Bollingen Series 14) Washington, 1948. |