Hero fighting mouflon beside stylised tree below winged sun-disc
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | Nearly half of the upper edge and the lower edge of the object have been broken off. In the remaining scene, a bearded hero grasps the horn of a rampant mouflon with one hand and holds a sickle sword (scimitar) in the other while stepping on the animal's hind leg. He wears a long, triple-belted, tiered and fringed open robe and has a quiver on his back. His garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern. Beyond the animal is a stylised three (arch-and-net tree) with interlinked buds arranged in an arch, while above it is the winged sun-disc. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: bearded, wearing a long, triple-belted, tiered and fringed open robe decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern, has a quiver on his back, holding a sickle sword (scimitar) - mouflon: rampant, head turned backwards - stylised tree (arch-and-net tree): with interlinked buds arranged in an arch - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum |
| Museum number | VA Ass 1701 |
| Condition, shape | nearly half of the upper edge and the lower edge of the object have been broken off, worn |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian, peripheral |
| Provenance | found in Assur |
| Archaeological context | Stadtgebiet |
| Registration number | Ass 9939 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 15+, d: 10 |
| Material and features | "Kalk, weißlich kaum transparent" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Klengel-Brandt 2014, 5–6 no. 14, pls. 4 and 40. 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. |