Dismounted Median spearman hunting boar

Object no. S00936
Description of the seal image A hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) aims his barbed spear at a charging boar and holds a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in the other hand. At his waist, he has a quiver (gorytos). Behind him stands his horse, above which there is a four-letter alphabetic inscription. All figures are set on a groundline.
Figures, motifs/symbols - boar: charging
- groundline
- horse
- hunter: spearman, wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk), holding a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in one hand, with a quiver (gorytos) at his waist; the spear is barbed and has a round butt at its end
- inscription: four-letter, alphabetic
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM ANE 89144 – 1846-5-23, 353
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges; large chip below the horse
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance ex-J. R. Steuart Collection
First occurence 1846
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 33, d: 22
Material and features "quartz, chalcedony: mottled, blue and grey-blue"
Style modelled
Scene hunting
Writing system, language Alphabetic. Aramaic.
Transliteration

N/A

Bibliography

Merrillees 2005, 50–51 no. 12 and pl. V.



Merrillees, P. H.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 6) London, 2005.

Object history The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai
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