Dual scene: Contest scene depicting hero fighting bull before worshipper with dog/Ritual scene depicting stylised tree with rampant wild goat (ibex)


Dual scene: Contest scene depicting hero fighting bull before worshipper with dog/Ritual scene depicting stylised tree with rampant wild goat (ibex)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The seal image comprises two scenes. In the contest scene, a bearded hero grasps the head of a rampant bull with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while trampling on the hind legs of the same animal. He wears a long, triple-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic and has tassels hanging from his shoulder or perhaps from a quiver. His robe is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern above the belt and a pattern of squares between the legs. Facing the hero is a beardless worshipper standing with a sitting dog. He wears a long, fringed robe decorated with a pattern of squares and raises one hand. Above him is an eight-rayed star in the sky. The other scene depicts a wild goat (ibex) flanking a flanking a small tree.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bull: rampant, head turned backwards
- dog: sitting
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, triple-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic; the robe is decorated with a pattern of rectangles between the legs and a crosshatch pattern on the upper body; tassels hang from the hero's shoulder or perhaps from a quiver; he holds a sickle sword (scimitar)
- star: eight-rayed
- stylised tree: small
- wild goat (ibex): rampant
- worshipper: beardless, wearing a long, fringed robe decorated with a pattern of squares
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection N/A, formerly kept in the Openot Collection
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges, large chip partly distorts the tree
Culture Assyro-Babylonian
Provenance ex-Openot Collection, surfaced at Christie's (London) 08–12–1993, lot 276
First occurence 1993
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 33, d: N/A
Material and features "yellow chalcedony"
Style modelled
Scene animal, contest, dual, ritual
Bibliography

Christie's (London) 08–12–1993, 119 lot 276.



Christie's (London) 08–12–1993: Fine Antiquities.