Median spearman hunting bear

Object no. S01115
Description of the seal image A hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), thrusts his spear at a rampant bear. The hunter holds a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand to lure the bear.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bear: rampant
- hunter: spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), holding a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF
Museum Number Delaporte.405
Condition, shape slightly chipped upper and lower edges
Culture / Production Place Achaemenid
Provenance acquired in 1857
First Occurrence 1857
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 25, d: 12
Material and features "cornaline"
Style modelled
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Delaporte 1910, 225 no. 405 and pl. XXVIII.



Delaporte, L.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothèque Nationale. I–II. Paris, 1910.

Object history
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