Hero 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 bearded hero grasps a rampant wild goat (ibex) by the neck with one hand and raises a dagger in the other. He wears a long, double-belted, fringed robe. Behind the two figures is a ten-rayed, globe-centred star with three small globes on its right side. Eleven vertical wedges appear scattered around the image field. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - globes (3): small - hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted robe, holding a dagger - star: ten-rayed, globe-centred - wedges (11): vertical, cuneiform - wild goat (ibex): rampant |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | former Tell-Halaf Museum |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | excavated by Max von Oppenheim at Tell Halaf |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 30, d: N/A |
| Material and features | N/A |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
von Oppenheim 1962, 35 no. 19 and pl. 24: 19. von Oppenheim, M.Fr.: Tell Halaf. Vierter Band: Die Kleinfunde aus historischer Zeit. (bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Barthel Hrouda) Berlin 1962. |