Hero (archer) fighting wild goat (ibex)

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, bearded hero (archer) wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge grasps a foreleg of a rampant wild goat (ibex) with his right hand and holds a scimitar in his lowered left hand. He has a sword at his waist. On his back, there is a quiver full of arrows. Behind the two figures, there is a plant with three branches.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, archer, wearing a belted tunic with a hatched pattern and a fringed lower edge, holding a scimitar in his lowered left hand; sword at his waist; with a quiver full of arrows on his back - plant: with three branches - wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	De Clercq Collection
Museum Number	De Clercq 313
Condition, shape	slightly worn
Culture / Production Place	Neo-Assyrian
Provenance	ex-de Clercq Collection
First Occurrence	before 1888
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 26, d: 12
Material and features	"porphyre aventurine"
Style	linear
Scene	contest
Bibliography	De Clercq – Menant 1888,179 no. 313 and pl. XXIX. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888.