Hero fighting winged bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| 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. |