Naked hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side


Naked hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A naked hero grasps a rampant wild goat (ibex) on either side. In front of the hero's legs is a scorpion. An undetermined, worn motif appears behind the caprids.
Figures, motifs/symbols - hero: naked
- scorpion
- undetermined motif: behind the caprids
- wild goats (ibexes) (2): rampant, heads turned backwards
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection National Museum of Aleppo
Museum number M.1034
Condition, shape worn; weathered
Culture uncertain
Provenance acquired in 1960
First occurence 1960
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 27; d: 14
Material and features "marble"
Style linear
Scene contest
Transliteration

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Translation N/A
Bibliography

Hammade 1987, 128–129 no. 246.



Hammade, H.: Cylinder Seals from the Collections of the Aleppo Museum, Syrian Arab Republic. I: Seals of Unknown Provenience. (BAR International Series 335) Oxford, 1987.