Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S01193 |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding Median hunter (spearman) wearing a nomadic garment and headdress with chin straps (bashlyk) aims his spear at a rampant deer. The spear has a round butt at its end. The horse has a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back. All figures are set on a baseline (groundline). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- baseline (groundline) - deer: stag, rampant - horse: charging, with a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back - hunter: Median, horse rider, spearman, wearing a nomadic garment and headdress with chin straps (bashlyk), holding a spear with a round butt |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | De Clercq Collection |
| Museum number | De Clercq 362 bis |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
| First occurence | before 1888 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 30, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "onyx noir rubané de blanc" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888, 249 no. 362 bis and pl. XXXIX. 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 |