Hero fighting serpent before worshipper
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | In this schematic scene, a hero grasps a serpent by the head and steps onto its body while a worshipper stands behind, raising one hand. In the sky is a crescent moon. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - hero - serpent - worshipper: raising one hand |
| Subcategory | bead cylinder seal |
| Collection | Penn Museum |
| Museum number | B14355 – CBS 14355 |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | excavated at Nippur in 1894 |
| First occurence | 1894 |
| Archaeological context | Nippur, hill VIII |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 18, d: 5 |
| Material and features | "glazed pottery" |
| Style | sintered quartz |
| Scene | contest, cultic |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Legrain 1925, 313 no. 640 and pl. XXXIII. Legrain, L.: The Culture of the Babylonians. From Their Seals in the Collections of the Museum. I–II. (Publications of the Babylonian Section 14) Philadelphia, 1925. |