气缸密封和现代印象：斗牛士与狮子搏斗；裸体英雄与水牛搏斗；铭文 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	气缸密封和现代印象：斗牛士与狮子搏斗；裸体英雄与水牛搏斗；铭文
品名（英）	Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription
入馆年号	1999年，1999.325.4
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2250 - 公元前 2150
创作地区
分类
尺寸	高 15/16 英寸 ( 3.4 厘米 ); 直径 7/8 英寸 ( 2.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	英雄和动物之间的较量最早出现在公元前四千年晚期的圆筒形印章上，到公元前三千年中期，战斗者（可能包括神话中的对手）已成为英雄。这场比赛是阿卡德时期最受欢迎的主题，在那里它可能代表了自然力量之间的对比和永远存在的斗争一个站着的裸体胡须英雄，有五根可见的侧发（传统的第六卷头发被他抬起的右臂遮住了），他抓住了一只用后腿饲养的水牛。水牛的头被英雄的右手向后推。这种动物的宽角展示在正面，这是在印度河流域的当代邮票印章上发现的。这些图像展示了阿卡德帝国与印度河流域（哈拉帕）文明之间的贸易和可能的外交关系所产生的文化互动。在主人公和水牛之间，是一个穿着长袍的小女孩，可能拿着一只船。在比赛场景中，英雄的盟友是一名公牛，脸上全是公牛的角、耳朵和下半身。在阿卡德时期的比赛场景中，公牛几乎无一例外地与狮子发生冲突。一只有角的动物躺在两名战士之间。两列楔形文字铭文将印章所有者命名为Ishri ilum。
介绍（英）	Contests between heroes and animals first appeared in cylinder seals in the late fourth millennium B.C., and by the middle of the third millennium B.C., the combatants, which might include mythological opponents, had assumed heroic status. The contest was a favorite subject during the Akkadian period, where it possibly represents the contrast and ever-present struggle between the forces of nature. A standing nude bearded hero with five visible sidelocks of hair (the traditional sixth curl is hidden by his raised right arm) grasps a water buffalo that is rearing on its hind legs. The head of the water buffalo is pushed back by the hero's right hand. The animal's wide horns are displayed frontally, as found on contemporary stamp seals from the Indus Valley where the water buffalo was native. Such imagery demonstrates cultural interaction resulting from trade and possibly diplomatic connections between the Akkadian empire and the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization. Between the hero and the water buffalo is a small female in a long robe, perhaps holding a vessel. The hero's ally in the contest scene is a bull-man, shown full-face with the horns, ears, and lower body of a bull. In Akkadian-period contest scenes, the bull-man is almost invariably, as here, in conflict with a lion. A horned animal lies between the two combatants. A two-column cuneiform inscription names the seal owner as Ishri-ilum.