Hero fighting bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image |
The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, bearded hero, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, grasps a foreleg of a rampant bull with one hand and holds a scimitar (sickle sword) in the other. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: rampant, head turned backwards - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, holds a scimitar (sickle sword) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, formerly kept in the collection of Nasli M. Heeramaneck |
| Museum number | M.76.174.404 |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Heeramaneck Collection |
| First occurence | 1981 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 23, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "white marble" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Porada 1981, 229 no. 1213. Porada, E.: “Stamp and Cylinder Seals of the Ancient Near East”. In: Moorey, P.R.S. et al. (eds.), Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection of Ancient Near Eastern, Central Asiatic, and European Art. Los Angeles, 1981, 187–234. |