NM Ant 2064
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seal impression, seal
- Object description
- Cylinder seal with slightly concave sides and vertical bore. Engraving in low relief depicting contest of 3 groups. In first group are an ithyphallic, human headed-bull fighting a hero. The bull has frontally presented head, and neck curved backwards. He is bearded, and is wearing a single-horned headdress and a triple-stranded belt with short, hanging ends. The hero is bearded, and wears only a a three-stranded belt. His face is frontally presented, the body is turned to the left. In second group are another ithyphallic, human headed-bull fighting a human figure. The bull has frontally presented head, and neck curved backwards. He is bearded, and is wearing a single-horned headdress and a triple-stranded belt with short, hanging ends. The human figure, in profile facing right, is bearded, and is wearing a cap-like headdress with flaring sides and a belted, wrap-over kilt. In third group are an ithyphallic bull-man in combat with a rampant lion facing right, jaws wide open and mane marked by diagonal lines. The bull-man is in full profile, facing left, and is wearing a single horned headdress and a four-stranded belt. Opaque, black serpentinite with green intrusions.
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