Hero carrying bull and grasping another one
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, half-kneeling hero grasps a rampant bull by the foreleg with one hand and carries another bull by the hind leg with the other. He wears a feathered headdress and a broad-belted kilt. Below the forelegs of the rampant bull is an Y-shaped object (possibly a plant). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bulls (2): one rampant, turning its head backwards, and another, inverted - hero: half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a feathered headdress and a broad-belted kilt - Y-shaped object (possibly a plant) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien |
| Museum number | KHM AS X 68 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| First occurence | 1842 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 25, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "Chalzedon ... 6 C 4 braunorange, durchscheinend" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Bleibtreu 1981, 91 no. 112. Bleibtreu, E.: Rollsiegel aus dem Vorderen Orient. Zur Steinschneidekunst zwischen etwa 3200 und 400 vor Christus nach Beständen in Wien und Graz. Wien, 1981. |