Triple scene: Contest scene depicting Bes carrying deer (stag) on either side while stepping on two lions/Hunting scene depicting hero (archer) aiming at lion while stepping on two lions/Ritual scene depicting two Persian heroes or attendants supporting w


Triple scene: Contest scene depicting Bes carrying deer (stag) on either side while stepping on two lions/Hunting scene depicting hero (archer) aiming at lion while stepping on two lions/Ritual scene depicting two Persian heroes or attendants supporting w
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. The seal image comprises of three scenes, a hunting scene on the left, and a ritual framing a contest on the right. A hero (archer), wearing a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge over a tunic, steps onto two reclining lions while aiming at a third, rampant one. The latter already has two arrows sticking out of its muzzle. Above them in the sky are a horseshoe-shaped symbol with two wedges (perhaps an earring), an eight-rayed star, and a bird. Next to this scene, two bearded heroes or attendants wearing Persian clothing (court robes) support the winged sun-disc with their raised hands. Between them is Bes, wearing a kilt, standing on two lions, and carrying two deer (stags) upside down, each by a hind leg.
Figures, motifs/symbols - Bes: wearing a kilt, in frontal view
- bird
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- deer (2): stags
- hero 1: archer, hunter, wearing a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge over a tunic, stepping onto lions
- heroes or attendants 2-3: Atlantid figures, wearing Persian clothing (court robes), supporting the winged sun-disc with their raised hands
- horseshoe-shaped symbol: perhaps an earring, with an arc in the middle and two cuneiform wedges at the sides
- lions 1-2: reclining, heads turned backwards
- lion 3: rampant, roaring, has two arrows sticking out of its muzzle
- lions 4-5: striding
- winged sun-disc: with curved appendages
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Archäologisches Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität
Museum number 4323
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance ex-collection of Tono Eitel
First occurence before 2016
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 23, d: 16
Material and features "Lapislazuli"
Style linear
Scene contest, hunting, ritual
Bibliography

Neumann 2016, 120–121 and 211 no. 135.



Neumann, G.: Altorientalische Siegel und Keilschriftdokumente im Archäologischen Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Die Stiftung der Sammlung Tono Eitel (Altertumskunde des Vorderen Orients. Archäologische Studien zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients 20 – Veröffentlichungen des Archäologischen Museums der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster 6) Münster, 2016.