Royal archer hunting gazelle (antelope)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A half-kneeling royal hunter (archer) wearing a crenellated crown (cidaris) aims his bow at a rampant gazelle (antelope). Between them is a vertically set alphabetic inscription above a large bird of prey. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bird: large, bird of prey - gazelle (antelope): rampant, head turned backwards - hunter: archer, half-kneeling, wearing a crenellated crown (cidaris) - inscription: alphabetic, set vertically |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam |
| Museum number | 18.389 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | sold at Christie's (New York) on 7 November 2001 (lot 610); ex-Kist Collection |
| First occurence | before 2001 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 25, d: 8 |
| Material and features | "agate" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Writing system, language | alphabetic (four letters), Aramaic(?) |
| Bibliography |
Kist 2003, 207 no. 389. Kist, J.: Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection: Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 18) Leiden – Boston, 2003. |