Winged hero grasping bull on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded winged hero grasps a rampant bull on either side, each by the foreleg. He wears a horned tiara and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic decorated with a dot-in-square pattern. Behind the bulls is a four-line, cuneiform inscription framed and separated by rulings. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bulls (2): rampant - inscription: four-line, cuneiform, framed and separated by rulings - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a horned tiara and a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed, open robe over a short tunic decorated with a dot-in-square pattern |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Museum of Fine Arts Boston / MFA |
| Museum number | MFA 27.649 – G.P. 323, 3 |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Reverend James Beck Collection (according to Mr A. P. Ready); ex-Edward Perry Warren Collection; lent to the MFA by him on 5 April 1926; purchased by the MFA from him on 17 November 1927 |
| First occurence | before 1920 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 39, d: N/A |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Writing system, language | cuneiform: Akkadian |
| Transliteration |
1. GAR NA4.KIŠIB an-ni-i 2. U4.MEŠ-šu2 3. li-ri-ku LA DIN 4. li-iš-bi |
| Translation |
1. May the one equipped with the seal 2–3a. be longed his days 3b-4. (and) be sated with fullness of life. |
| Bibliography |
Beazley 1920, 4 no. 7 and pl. I (written by Dr L.W. King, revised by Dr. S. Langdon). Beazley, J. D.: The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems. Oxford, 1920. MFA: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/242603/ [accessed: 12-11-2023]. |