Horse-riding Median spearman hunting deer
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk) aims his spear at a fleeing deer. The horse has a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back and a tassel on its tail. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- deer: stag, fleeing - horse: charging, with a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back and a tassel on its tail - hunter: horse rider, spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre – De Clercq Collection |
| Museum Number | AO 22354 – De Clercq 362 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture / Production Place | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection; donated to the Musée du Louvre by Henri Louis Marie Martin de Boisgelin in 1967 |
| First Occurrence | before 1888 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 27, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "cornaline blanche" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888, 197 no. 362 and pl. XXXIII. De Clercq, L. – Menant, J.: Collection de Clercq: Catalogue méthodique et raisonné. Antiquités assyriennes: Cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc. I: Cylindres orientaux. I: Texte – II: Planches et carte. Paris, 1888. |