Horse-riding Median spearman hunting boar
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) thrusts his spear at a charging boar. The spear has a round butt at its end. The horse has a fringed saddle rug on its back. Behind the hunter is the high back of the saddle or a bow in quiver (gorytos). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- boar: charging - horse: with a fringed saddle rug on its back - hunter: Median, spearman, holding a spear with a round butt, with a bow in a quiver (gorytos) behind him or the high back of the saddle |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection |
| Museum number | MMA L55.49.127 – Mrs Moore 119 |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection; on loan to the MMA by The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr. from 1955 |
| First occurence | before 1940 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 22; d: 10 |
| Material and features | "agate" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Translation | N/A |
| Bibliography |
Eisen 1940, 55 no. 104 and pl. XI. Eisen, G. A.: Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals with a Description of the Collection of Mrs. William H. Moore. (Oriental Institute Publications 47) Chicago, 1940. |