Horse-riding Median spearman hunting deer


Horse-riding Median spearman hunting deer
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A horse-riding Median hunter (spearman) wearing a nomadic garment and headdress with chin straps (bashlyk) aims his spear at a rampant deer. The spear has a round butt at its end. The horse has a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back. All figures are set on a baseline (groundline).
Figures, motifs/symbols - baseline (groundline)
- deer: stag, rampant
- horse: charging, with a high-backed saddle and a fringed saddle rug on its back
- hunter: Median, horse rider, spearman, wearing a nomadic garment and headdress with chin straps (bashlyk), holding a spear with a round butt
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection De Clercq Collection
Museum number De Clercq 362 bis
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance ex-de Clercq Collection
First occurence before 1888
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 30, d: 11
Material and features "onyx noir rubané de blanc"
Style modelled
Scene hunting
Bibliography

De Clercq – Menant 1888, 249 no. 362 bis and pl. XXXIX.



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.