Hero fighting winged bull while trampling on a similar one


Hero fighting winged bull while trampling on a similar one
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded hero grasps a rampant winged bull by the ear with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while kicking another winged bull falling backwards. He wears a headband and a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed open robe, and has a sword at his waist. Behind the figures is the winged sun-disc above a stylised tree (arch-and-net tree).
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: bearded, wearing a headband and a long, double-belted, tiered and fringed open robe, and has a sword at his waist, holding a sickle sword (scimitar)
- stylised tree (arch-and-net tree): with buds or cones and a net pattern
- winged bulls (2): one rampant and one falling backwards
- winged sun-disc: with volutes and globe-tipped appendages
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo
Museum number N/A
Condition, shape slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Assyro-Babylonian
First occurence 1991
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 37, d: 20
Material and features "glassified black stone" (in Japanese)
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Ishida, ed., 1991, 37 no. III–4–10.



Ishida, K., ed.: Inshō no sekai. Kodai oriento bijutsu to rekishi no kataribe [The World of Seals. Narrators/Storytellers of the Visual Arts and History of the Ancient Near East]. Tokyo, 1991 [in Japanese].