Hero grasping fish-man (kulullu) and goat-fish (suhurmashu)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a fish-man (kulullu) with one hand and a goat-fish (suhurmashu) with the other. He wears a horned tiara and a broad-belted, fringed kilt. The fish-man holds an aryballos. Behind the two hybrid creatures is a vertically-set, three-line cuneiform inscription framed and separated by rulings. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- fish-man (kulullu): bearded, holding an aryballos - goat-fish (suhurmashu) - inscription: cuneiform, three lines, vertically-set, framed and separated by rulings - winged hero: likely Marduk, bearded, wearing a horned tiara and a broad-belted, fringed kilt |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien |
| Museum number | KHM AS X 148 (AE_SEM_1249) |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | kept in the Antikensammlung until 1982 |
| First occurence | 1600's. |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 35, d: 17 |
| Material and features | "Chalzedon ... 20 C 4 graublau, durchscheinend" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform: Akkadian |
| Transliteration |
1. ša dAMAR.UTU 2. ša la le-ʾ-i 3. šu-te-šur-šu |
| Translation |
1. The one Marduk 2–3. who provides justice for the powerless. |
| Bibliography |
Bleibtreu 1981, 84–85 no. 103. Bleibtreu, E.: Rollsiegel aus dem Vorderen Orient. Zur Steinschneidekunst zwischen etwa 3200 und 400 vor Christus nach Beständen in Wien und Graz. Wien, 1981. For the seal legend, see Niederreiter 2024, 152 cat. no. 31. Niederreiter Z. 2024: Appendix 4.3.1. The Meeting of Sweet and Salt Water, Where It All |