Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	A bearded hero grasps an ostrich on either side, each by the neck. He wears a headband and a long, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. Between the legs of the ostrich on the right is a rhomb, while behind the birds is the winged sun-disc in the sky.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- birds (2): ostriches - hero: bearded, wearing a headband and a long, fringed, open robe over a short tunic - rhomb - winged sun-disc
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection
Museum number	F1993.15.74
Condition, shape	chipped upper and lower edges
Culture	Assyro-Babylonian
Provenance	purchased in Iran between 1943 and 1945; gift of a private collector in 1980 to the Freer Study Collection, and later transferred to the Permanent Collection in April 1993
First occurence	between 1943 and 1945
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 23, d: 11
Material and features	"chalcedony"
Style	modelled
Scene	contest
Bibliography	F: https://asia.si.edu/object/F1993.15.74/ [accessed: 20-03-2026].