The scene of triumph over the defeated enemy on the sealing from Kultepe (collection of the Pushkin State Museum of fine arts, I 2 B 1598)

The paper presents a commented publication of seal print from Kultepe (early II mill. BC), collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (inv. no. I 2 b 1598) with a rare composition where the hero tramples the defeated enemy before the deity sitting on the throne, while a sacred tree of an extremely unusual shape is depicted between the deity and the hero (Fig. 1; 2). A comparative study of the image shows that it combines both Mesopotamian motifs (a triumph over the enemy stretched out on his back and raising his hand in order to shield himself or beg for mercy) and East Anatolian ones (the tree of the rare form placed next to the deity and some other details have analogies on one Late New Hittite seal) (Fig. 3).