Winged hero fighting hybrid creature
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | This damaged and worn scene appears to depict a winged hero raising one hand and holding an undetermined object in the lowered other. Behind him is a star above an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree). Based on its posture, the winged hero may have been depicted in a contest with a winged creature, grabbing its horn or head with the raised hand. Above the creature are the remains of a crescent moon. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) - hybrid creature: possibly a winged bull, human-headed winged lion (lamassu, sphinx), or a human-headed winged bull (aladlammu) - star - winged hero: bearded, winged, wearing a conical headdress, holding an undetermined object (likely a weapon such as a sickle sword [scimitar]) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum |
| Museum number | VA Ass 1709 |
| Condition, shape | damaged, worn |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | Assur |
| Archaeological context | bE6IV (from a Neo-Assyrian residential building?) |
| Registration number | Ass 10457 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 29, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "Kalk, weißlich leicht transparent" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Klengel-Brandt 2014, 7 no. 18, pls. 5 and 41. Klengel-Brandt, E.: Die neuassyrische Glyptik aus Assur. Mit Beiträgen von Sabine Böhme und Othmar Keel (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 140 – Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur, F: Fundgruppen 7) Wiesbaden, 2014. |