Archer hunting bull


Archer hunting bull
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling bearded hunter (archer) wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a prancing bull. The archer has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back. Between the two figures is an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) with two shoots below a nine-rayed, globe-centred star. Above the bull, there is a small star next to the Sibitti (Pleiades).
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- bull: prancing
- ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree)
- hunter: archer, bearded, half-kneeling, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back
- Sibitti (Pleiades)
- star 1: nine-rayed, globe-centred
- star 2: small
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection ex-Williams Collection
Museum Number N/A
Condition, shape slightly worn
Culture / Production Place Neo-Assyrian
Provenance ex-Williams Collection: assembled by Reverend Dr William Frederick Williams; after him, owned by Mr Robert S. Williams of Utica, New York
First Occurrence before 1886
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 26, d: 11
Material and features "obsidian"
Style linear
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Menant 1886, 255 no. 9 and pl. VI.



Menant, J.: "Oriental Cylinders of the Williams Collection". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 2/3 (1886) 247–260.