A BABYLONIAN/ASSYRIAN YELLOW CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL, showing a hero, with a scimitar in his left hand, wrestling with a rampant bull, the hero grasps the bull by its horns and places his right foot on the animal's hind leg, twisting the bull's head and making its forelegs flail, under the bull a diminutive tree and rampant ibex, before them stands a worshipper with left hand raised in supplication, infornt of whom sits a dog (sacred to the healing goddess Gula), a star in the field, minor chips, circa 700 B.C. 3.3cm. high
A BABYLONIAN/ASSYRIAN YELLOW CHALCEDONY CYLINDER SEAL, showing a hero, with a scimitar in his left hand, wrestling with a rampant bull, the hero grasps the bull by its horns and places his right foot on the animal's hind leg, twisting the bull's head and making its forelegs flail, under the bull a diminutive tree and rampant ibex, before them stands a worshipper with left hand raised in supplication, infornt of whom sits a dog (sacred to the healing goddess Gula), a star in the field, minor chips, circa 700 B.C. 3.3cm. high
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