Horse-riding Median spearman hunting deer


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.