Sealing

UE III: a victorious hero, spear in hand, attacks his enemies. These are represented naked, back to back, one upside down, with legs spread wide apart and catching one another's foot, in the curious composition noticed on the seal, No. 274. A pack of twisted snakes adds to the meaning of the scene, one of them actually biting one enemy in the wrist. A third nude kneeling man raises his hand, crying for mercy. The hero wears a skirt open in front after the Kish style, but is entirely shaven, like his enemies. Eight-petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 19 mm. Clay sealing. Baked and shellacked post-excavation. Fragment with unclassified designs showing mostly men and animals.