Hero fighting rampant bull beside winged sun-disc above stylised tree (rosette tree)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a rampant bull by the ear with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while stepping on the animal's hind legs. He wears a rectangular headdress and a long, fringed, open robe, has a sword at his waist and a tasselled quiver on his back. Behind the hero is the winged sun-disc above a stylised tree (rosette tree) with its branches arranged radially and offshoots at its base. Above and below the bull is a crescent moon and a rhomb, respectively. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bull: rampant, head turned backwards - crescent moon - hero: bearded, wearing a rectangular headdress and a long, fringed, open robe, has a tasselled quivered on his back and a sword at his waist, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) - rhomb - stylised tree (rosette tree): with branches arranged radially and offshoots at its base - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | modern impression kept in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington |
| Museum number | U.S.N.M. 300605 |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | original cylinder seal was owned by Prof. H. Hyvernat |
| First occurence | before 1926 (property of Prof. H. Hyvernat) |
| Material and features | "chalcedony" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Casanowicz 1926, 10 and pl. 3: 4. 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. |