Winged hero fighting bull while stepping on bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded winged hero grasps a rampant bull by the foreleg with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while stepping on the back of a reclining bull. He wears a horned tiara and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. His robe is decorated with a dot-in-square pattern. Behind him and the bull is a crescent moon next to an eight-rayed star in the sky. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bull 1: rampant - bull 2: reclining - crescent moon - star: eight-rayed - winged hero: bearded, winged, wearing a horned tiara and a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic decorated with a dot-in-square pattern, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art / The MET / MMA |
| Museum number | MMA 1984.383.21 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Martin and Sarah Cherkasky Collection (New York); gifted by Martin and Sarah Cherkasky to the MMA in 1984 |
| First occurence | before 1984 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 28, d: 12 (Aruz 1987); h: 27.7, d: N/A (MMA) |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" (Aruz 1987); "flawed neutral chalcedony (quartz)" (MMA) |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Aruz 1987, 46 and 72 no. 73. Aruz, J.: "The Great Empires of the First Millennium B.C.". In: Pittman, H.: Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky. New York, 1987, 42–46. MMA: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326982 [accessed: 14-12-2023]. |