Horse-riding spearman hunting wild goat (ibex)


Horse-riding spearman hunting wild goat (ibex)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing a nomadic garment and headdress (bashlyk) thrusts his spear (A. Moortgat) at a rampant wild goat (ibex).
Figures, motifs/symbols - horse: charging
- hunter: horse rider, spearman, wearing a nomadic garment and headdress (bashlyk)
- wild goat (ibex): rampant, head turned backwards
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Vorderasiatisches Museum
Museum number VA 4251
Condition, shape damaged
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance excavated at Assur
First occurence 1940
Archaeological context Assur
Registration number Ass 18153
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 34, d: 14
Material and features "Kalkstein"
Style linear
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Moortgat 1940, 79, 152 no. 770 and Taf. 90.



Moortgat, A.: Vorderasiatische Rollsiegel. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst. Berlin, 1940.