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 / Production Place | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
| First Occurrence | 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 |