Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting mouflon/Banquet scene depicting pot between king sitting on stool and his attendant

Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting mouflon/Banquet scene depicting pot between king sitting on stool and his attendant

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Megfigyelés Nyomtatási nézet
Object no. S04947
Description of the seal image The seal image consists of two scenes, a hunting scene and a banquet scene. The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. In the hunting scene, a hunter (archer) wearing a short tunic decorated with a row of squares aims his bow at a rampant mouflon. In the banquet scene, a human figure (possibly a king) wearing a long robe decorated with a patterns of squares is depicted sitting on a stool and holding a cup(?). Facing this person is an attendant raising a flag-shaped fan in his right hand and a pot in his left. Between the two figures, there is a small bird above another pot. Behind the attendant and the hunter is a vertically set fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols - attendant: raising flag-shaped fan and pot
- bird
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- fish
- king(?): sitting on a stool, holding small globular object, wearing long robe decorated with a patterns of squares
- hunter: archer, wearing a tunic decorated with a row of squares
- mouflon: rampant
- pots (2)
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Oriental Institute Museum
Museum number OI A25316
Condition, shape damaged upper and lower edges, worn
Culture Iranian, Neo-Elamite
Provenance Surkh Dum-i-Luri
Archaeological context Area 1/2, elevation 2C
Registration number Sor 1649
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 32, d: 18
Material and features "serpentine"
Style linear
Scene banquet, dual, hunting
Bibliography

van Loon 1989, 60, 418–419 no. 56, 458 no. 234: 56 and pl. 234:56.



van Loon, M.N.:“Iron Age Cylinder and Stamp Seals”. In: Schmidt(†), E.F. – van Loon, M.N. – Curvers, H.H. (eds.), The Holmes Expeditions to Luristan (Text – Plates) (Oriental Institute Publications 108) Chicago, Illinois, 1989, 413–474.
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 ZN and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN (14 March 2026). GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter
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