Hero fighting rampant bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hero grasps a rampant bull by its horn with one hand and stabs it with a dagger with the other. He wears a long, belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. Behind the two figures is a vertically-set, two-line alphabetic inscription. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bull: rampant - hero: bearded, wearing a long, belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic, holding a dagger - inscription: vertically-set, two lines, alphabetic |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem |
| Museum number | BLMJ 157 – BLMJ Seal 732 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Achaemenid, Neo-Babylonian |
| First occurence | 2018 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | slightly barrel-shaped |
| Material and features | "carnelian" |
| Style | modelled |
| Writing system, language | alphabetic: Aramean |
| Transliteration |
1. […]tlnny 2. spr |
| Translation |
1. […] tl-Nanaya, 2. the scribe |
| Bibliography |
Bloch 2018, no. 0157. Bloch, Y.: Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform: Sēpiru Professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods. (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 11) Piscataway, New Jersey, 2018. |