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, beardless hunter (archer) wearing a headband and a double-belted tunic aims his bow at a rampant bull on the other side of a tree on a hill. Next to the tree, there are three lines, possibly indicating further vegetation. The bull has hook-shaped lines along its neck and at all its knee joints. In the sky, there is a crescent moon and a six-rayed star. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: rampant, head turned backwards - crescent moon - hill: indicated by a scale pattern, with a tree on its top - hunter: half-kneeling, beardless, archer, wearing a headband and a double-belted tunic - plant: indicated by three lines on the hill - tree: with a curvy stem and radiating branches, on top of a hill - star: six-rayed |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | De Clercq Collection |
| Museum Number | De Clercq 311 |
| Culture / Production Place | Middle Assyrian |
| Culture and/or date | Middle Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-de Clercq Collection |
| First Occurrence | before 1888 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 31, d: 15 |
| Material and features | "porphyre noir" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
De Clercq – Menant 1888,178 no. 311 and pl. XXIX. 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. |