Archer hunting lions from chariot
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bearded hunter (archer) wearing a brimmed headdress and a long, broad-belted robe aims his bow at a rampant lion, while another, fallen one is below the horse. He is standing in a chariot with an eight-spoked wheel and a spear with a round butt on its back. Based on the number of reins held by the charioteer, the vehicle is drawn by two horses. Above the horses is a bird, while above the rampant lion is an eight-rayed star, and below a fish. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird - chariot: with an eight-spoked wheel and a spear with a round butt on its back - charioteer: holding reins - fish - horses (2): galloping, drawing a chariot - hunter: archer, standing, bearded, wearing a brimmed headdress and a long, broad-belted robe - lion 1: rampant - lion 2: fallen - star: eight-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF |
| Museum Number | Delaporte.371 |
| Culture / Production Place | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | N/A |
| First Occurrence | 1858 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 27, d: 14 |
| Material and features | "calcédoine lactée" |
| Style | cut |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Delaporte 1910, 208 no. 371 and pl. XXV. Delaporte, L.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothèque Nationale. I–II. Paris, 1910. |