Hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side next to scorpion-tailed bird-man (unfinished)


Hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side next to scorpion-tailed bird-man (unfinished)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded hero wearing a rectangular headdress and a long, open robe grasps a rampant wild goat (ibex) on either side, each by a foreleg. Next to them stands an unfinished scorpion-tailed bird-man.
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: bearded, wearing a rectangular headdress and a long, open robe
- scorpion-tailed bird-man: unfinished
- wild goats (ibexes) (2): rampant, heads turned backwards
Subcategory bead cylinder seal
Collection Adana Archaeology Museum
Museum number 980
Culture Neo-Babylonian
Provenance acquired in trade in 1972
First occurence 1972
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 35; d: 6–12
Material and features "roche vitrifiée translucide à trois zones de couleur: brun foncé, blanc et brun clair"
Style cut
Scene contest
Transliteration

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Translation N/A
Bibliography

Tunca 1979, 24 no. 109.



Tunca, O.: "Catalogue des sceaux-cylindres du Musée régional d’Adana". Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 3/1 (1979) 1–28.