AN OLD BABYLONIAN HAEMATITE CYLINDER SEAL, showing a nude hero, bearded and with curling locks, grappling with a lion raised up on its hind legs, behind them stands a god holding a ring being approached by a worshipper carrying an animal as an offering, a disc and crescent, a ball-and-staff, a turtle, fish, ibex and other animals in the field, chipped, 1850-1750 B.C.