Horse-riding Median spearman hunting boar

Object no.	S02075
Description of the seal image	A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) thrusts his spear at a charging boar. The spear has a round butt at its end. The horse has a fringed saddle rug on its back. Behind the hunter is the high back of the saddle or a bow in quiver (gorytos).
Figures, motifs/symbols	- boar: charging - horse: with a fringed saddle rug on its back - hunter: Median, spearman, holding a spear with a round butt, with a bow in a quiver (gorytos) behind him or the high back of the saddle
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection
Museum Number	MMA L55.49.127 – Mrs Moore 119
Condition, shape	slightly worn
Culture / Production Place	Achaemenid
Provenance	ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection; on loan to the MMA by The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr. from 1955
First Occurrence	before 1940
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 22; d: 10
Material and features	"agate"
Style	modelled
Scene	hunting
Transliteration	N/A
Traduction	N/A
Bibliography	Eisen 1940, 55 no. 104 and pl. XI. Eisen, G. A.: Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals with a Description of the Collection of Mrs. William H. Moore. (Oriental Institute Publications 47) Chicago, 1940.

Object history

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