Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S01192 |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk) aims his spear at a fleeing deer. The horse has a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back and a tassel on its tail. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- deer: stag, fleeing - horse: charging, with a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back and a tassel on its tail - hunter: horse rider, spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre – De Clercq Collection |
| Museum number | AO 22354 – De Clercq 362 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection; donated to the Musée du Louvre by Henri Louis Marie Martin de Boisgelin in 1967 |
| First occurence | before 1888 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 27, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "cornaline blanche" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888, 197 no. 362 and pl. XXXIII. 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 | 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 |