Lion attacking bull


Lion attacking bull
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by rows of outward-pointing triangles decorated with a crosshatch pattern. A lion attacks a stumbling bull. Above the bull are a crescent moon, a star, and a rhomb.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): rows of outward-pointing triangles decorated with a crosshatch pattern
- bull: stumbling
- crescent moon
- lion: semi-rampant, roaring
- rhomb
- star
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection British Museum
Museum number BM 89386 (1841,0726.162)
Culture Isin II
Provenance ex-Claude Scott Stewart Collection
First occurence before 1841
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 39, d: 13.5 (the ends of the perforation are shaped like equilateral triangles with sides, c. 0.48 cm)
Material and features limestone (partly dolomitised), brown
Style linear
Scene animal
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Bibliography

Porada(†) – Collon 2016, 82 no. 3K 5 and pl. 13: 3K 5 and pl. 48: 3K 5.



Porada(†), E. – Collon, D., Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals IV: The Second Millennium BC (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 4), London, 2016.