Archer hunting lions from chariot


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.