Winged hero grasping ostrich on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps an ostrich on either side, each by the neck. He wears a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic. Behind the birds are the winged sun-disc and a crescent moon in the sky, and a fish below. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- birds (2): ostriches, heads turned backwards - crescent moon - fish - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Iraq Museum |
| Museum number | IM 67880 |
| Condition, shape | slightly damaged upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| Provenance | Nineveh |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 42, d: 20 |
| Material and features | lapis lazuli |
| Style | linear, modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Basmachi 1975–1976, 405 fig. 188 (2nd item in the 1st row). Basmachi, F.: Treasures of the Iraq Museum. Baghdad 1975-1976. Collon 1994, 37–40. Collon, D.: "Urzana of Muṣasir’s seal." In: Çilingiroğlu, A. – French, D.H. (eds.) Anatolian Iron Ages 3: The Proceedings of the Third Iron Ages Colloquium held at Van, 6-12 August 1990. (The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph 16) Ankara 1994, 37–40. Collon 2005, 77–78 no. 350. Collon, D.: First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. [First published in 1987] London, 2005. |