Winged hero fighting scorpion-tailed hybrid creature
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The upper third of the object has been broken off. The remaining scene depicts a half-kneeling winged hero grasping a scorpion-tailed hybrid creature with one hand and holding a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a triple-belted, fringed tunic. Behind the two figures is the tasselled spade of Marduk on a stand. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hybrid creature: scorpion-tailed - spade of Marduk: tasselled, on a stand - winged hero: winged, half-kneeling, wearing a triple-belted, fringed tunic, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Iraq Museum |
| Museum number | IM 23612 |
| Condition, shape | upper third of the object has been broken off, worn |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | excaveted at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad) between 1932–1934 |
| First occurence | between 1932–1934 |
| Archaeological context | Residence Z, Room 13 |
| Registration number | DS 1139 |
| Material and features | "gray stone" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Loud – Altman 1938, 98 no. 89 and pl. 58. Loud, G. – Altman, Ch.B.: Khorsabad. II: The Citadel and the Town (Oriental Institute Publications 40) Chicago, Illinois, 1938. |