Dismounted Median spearman hunting boar
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) aims his barbed spear at a charging boar and holds a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in the other hand. At his waist, he has a quiver (gorytos). Behind him stands his horse, above which there is a four-letter alphabetic inscription. All figures are set on a groundline. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- boar: charging - groundline - horse - hunter: spearman, wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk), holding a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in one hand, with a quiver (gorytos) at his waist; the spear is barbed and has a round butt at its end - inscription: four-letter, alphabetic |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The British Museum |
| Museum number | BM ANE 89144 – 1846-5-23, 353 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges; large chip below the horse |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-J. R. Steuart Collection |
| First occurence | 1846 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 33, d: 22 |
| Material and features | "quartz, chalcedony: mottled, blue and grey-blue" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Writing system, language | Alphabetic. Aramaic. |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Merrillees 2005, 50–51 no. 12 and pl. V. Merrillees, P. H.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 6) London, 2005. |