Two lions flaning nude bearded hero

"Most of the cylinders of this group are very small and are executed with considerable use of an extremely fine drill (1010-1017). The seals exemplifying this Mitannian technique present mainly Old Babylonian figures, with some admixture of foreign features. Similar designs are found in sal impressions on Babylonian tablets of the end of the period of the First Dynasty of Babylon, as well as in a few impressions from Nuzi (Nuzi 609-612). The sytle of this group would appear therefore to be intermediate betweent eh Old Babylonian and the typically Mitannian. The composition of 1010, a contest frieze, is much like that of the Old Babylonian seal 354; however, the god wearing a headdress that resembles a top hat and holding an ax differs from the Old Babylonian figure with such headgear, since the latter is pictured only with a crook in his hand (521)."--Porada, CANES, p. 140