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. The upper part of his garment is decorated with a dot-in-square pattern while the lower part with a net or crosshatch pattern. Behind the birds is a horizontally-set, seven-line cuneiform inscription framed and separated by rulings.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- birds (2): ostriches, heads turned backwards - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, tiered and fringed open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a dot-in-square pattern while the lower part with a net or crosshatch pattern - inscription: cuneiform, horizontally-set, seven lines, framed and separated by rulings
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, formerly kept in the Cabinert Royal des Médailles a la Haye, The Hague
Museum number	N/A
Condition, shape	slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture	Assyro-Babylonian
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 48.5, d: 22
Material and features	"calcédoine rose"
Style	modelled
Scene	contest
Writing system, language	cuneiform: Akkadian
Bibliography	Zadoks-Josephus 1952, no. 148. Zadoks-Josephus J.A.N.: Catalogue sommaire des cylindres orientaux au Cabinet royal des médailles à La Haye. (En collaboration avec R. Frankena) La Haye, 1952. 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, 87 no. 405. Collon, D.: First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. [First published in 1987] London, 2005.