Hero fighting bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a rampant bull by the horn with one hand and brandishes an axe with the other while stepping onto the animal's hind leg. He wears a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. On the stamp seal image is a cock. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird: cock (stamp seal image) - bull: rampant, head turned backwards - hero: bearded, wearing a long, double-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic, brandishing an axe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal stamp cylinder |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre |
| Museum number | AO 2283 – CCO A. 668 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges; scattered chips and faults around the figures |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | acquired in 1893 |
| First occurence | 1893 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | N/A |
| Material and features | "sardoine" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Delaporte 1923, 165 no. A. 668 and pl. 87: 14a–c. Delaporte, L.: Musée du Louvre. Catalogue des cylindres. Cachets et pierres gravées de style oriental. II: Acquisitions. Paris, 1923. |