Hero fighting human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) beside stylised tree


Hero fighting human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) beside stylised tree
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A bearded hero grasps a human-faced winged wild goat (ibex) by the horn with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other. He wears a long, tiered and fringed, open robe and has a quiver on his back and a sword at his waist. Beyond the hybrid creature is a sitting dog facing a stylised tree (rosette tree) with interlinked buds arranged radially.
Figures, motifs/symbols - dog: sitting
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, tiered and fringed, open robe, has a quiver on his back and a sword at his waist; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a crosshatch pattern
- human-faced winged wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards
- stylised tree (rosette tree): with interlinked buds arranged radially
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Museum number KHM ÄgS Sem. 1138 (ex VKM 25402)
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges, large chips partly distort the figures
Culture Assyro-Babylonian
First occurence 1967
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 28.7, d: 12.8
Material and features "Chalzedon ... 8 C 6 braunrot"
Style modelled
Scene contest
Bibliography

Bleibtreu 1981, 73–74 no. 88.



Bleibtreu, E.: Rollsiegel aus dem Vorderen Orient. Zur Steinschneidekunst zwischen etwa 3200 und 400 vor Christus nach Beständen in Wien und Graz. Wien, 1981.