Winged hero grasping winged bull on either side
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded, four-winged hero grasps a rampant winged bull on either side, each by a foreleg. He wears a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic. The upper part of his garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern. Behind his legs is a rhomb, while behind the rampant beasts are a crescent moon, a six-rayed star, and the stylus of Nabu arranged above one another. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- crescent moon - rhomb - star: six-rayed - stylus of Nabu: made of a double wedge - winged bulls (2): rampant, heads turned backwards - winged hero: bearded, four-winged, wearing a long, broad-belted, fringed, open robe over a short tunic; the upper part of his garment is decorated with a net or crosshatch pattern |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem |
| Museum number | BLMJ 2697 – BLMJ Seal 493 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges, one third of the lower edge has been broken off, resulting in partial distortion of the winged hero and the winged bull in front of him |
| Culture | Assyro-Babylonian |
| First occurence | 2015 |
| Material and features | N/A |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | contest |
| Bibliography |
Oshima 2015, 5–6 and 12 fig. 5. Oshima, T.: “BLMJ 2700: A Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seal with a Mythological Battle A Question on the Identity of the Four-Winged God on Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Seals” Bible Lands e-Review 2015/S1, https://biblelandsreview.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/takayoshi-bler-2015-s1.pdf [accessed 26–03–2026]. |