Hero (archer) hunting human-headed winged bull (aladlammu)


Hero (archer) hunting human-headed winged bull (aladlammu)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by two bands with triple diagonal hatchings arranged in opposing pairs at the top and bottom. A seemingly leaping and not a half-kneeling hero (archer) wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a human-headed winged bull (aladlammu). The archer has a sword at his waist. The latter is wearing a brimmed headdress. Between the two figures, there are two cuneiform signs pointing in opposite directions.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): two bands with triple diagonal hatchings arranged in opposing pairs at the top and bottom
- hero: archer, hunter, leaping, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, with a sword at his waist
- human-headed winged bull (aladlammu): wearing a brimmed headdress
- wedges (2): cuneiform, pointing in opposite directions
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF
Museum Number Delaporte.311
Condition, shape large chip above the hunter; slightly worn
Culture / Production Place Neo-Assyrian
Provenance acquired from Paul-Émile Botta in 1846
First Occurrence 1846
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 38, d: 13
Material and features "marbre noir veiné de blanc"
Style linear
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Delaporte 1910, 175 no. 311 and pl. XXI.



Delaporte, L.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothèque Nationale. I–II. Paris, 1910.