Archer hunting bull

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Object no.	S01133
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling, beardless hunter (archer) wearing a headband and a double-belted tunic aims his bow at a rampant bull on the other side of a tree on a hill. Next to the tree, there are three lines, possibly indicating further vegetation. The bull has hook-shaped lines along its neck and at all its knee joints. In the sky, there is a crescent moon and a six-rayed star.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: rampant, head turned backwards - crescent moon - hill: indicated by a scale pattern, with a tree on its top - hunter: half-kneeling, beardless, archer, wearing a headband and a double-belted tunic - plant: indicated by three lines on the hill - tree: with a curvy stem and radiating branches, on top of a hill - star: six-rayed
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	De Clercq Collection
Museum Number	De Clercq 311
Culture / Production Place	Middle Assyrian
Culture and/or date	Middle Assyrian
Provenance	ex-de Clercq Collection
First Occurrence	before 1888
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 31, d: 15
Material and features	"porphyre noir"
Style	modelled
Scene	hunting
Bibliography	De Clercq – Menant 1888,178 no. 311 and pl. XXIX. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888.

Object history

Divine World Glyptics

Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza

Archer hunting bull

Műveletek