Hero grasping wild goat (ibex) on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a rampant wild goat (ibex) on either side, each by the ear. He wears a round headdress and a long, open robe. A six-rayed, globe-centred star appears in the sky behind the animals. Below the wild goat on the left is a ball-and-staff symbol. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- ball-and-staff symbol - hero: bearded, wearing a round headdress and a long, open robe - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - wild goats (ibexes): rampant, heads turned backwards |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | modern impression kept in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington |
| Museum number | U.S.N.M. 311265 |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | original cylinder seal was owned by Mrs. Talcott Williams |
| First occurence | before 1926 |
| Material and features | N/A |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Casanowicz 1926, 12 and pl. 14: 1. Casanowicz, I.M., “The Collection of Ancient Oriental Seals in the United States National Museum”, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 69/4 (1926), 1–23. |