A shows us the wonderful work of the Babylonian seal-cutter in the time of Sargon (§ 168).  At the extreme left the bearded hero Gilgamesh (§ 173), the ancestor of Hercules, is slaying a wild bull. He is aided by the hero Engidu, half man, half bull. Next, Gilgamesh alone is slaying a lion. In the right-hand seal, in balanced heraldic arrangement (Fig. 85), a lion is twice shown slaying a wild bull. In B, the lion hunt, we have one of the best examples of Assyrian relief sculpture of the reign of Assurbanipal (§ 223). It clearly shows the influence of the animal sculpture of the old Babylonian seals, over two thousand years older.