Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting mouflon/Banquet scene depicting pot between king sitting on stool and his attendant


Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting mouflon/Banquet scene depicting pot between king sitting on stool and his attendant
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The seal image consists of two scenes, a hunting scene and a banquet scene. The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. In the hunting scene, a hunter (archer) wearing a short tunic decorated with a row of squares aims his bow at a rampant mouflon. In the banquet scene, a human figure (possibly a king) wearing a long robe decorated with a patterns of squares is depicted sitting on a stool and holding a cup(?). Facing this person is an attendant raising a flag-shaped fan in his right hand and a pot in his left. Between the two figures, there is a small bird above another pot. Behind the attendant and the hunter is a vertically set fish.
Figures, motifs/symbols - attendant: raising flag-shaped fan and pot
- bird
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- fish
- king(?): sitting on a stool, holding small globular object, wearing long robe decorated with a patterns of squares
- hunter: archer, wearing a tunic decorated with a row of squares
- mouflon: rampant
- pots (2)
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Oriental Institute Museum
Museum number OI A25316
Condition, shape damaged upper and lower edges, worn
Culture Iranian, Neo-Elamite
Provenance Surkh Dum-i-Luri
Archaeological context Area 1/2, elevation 2C
Registration number Sor 1649
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 32, d: 18
Material and features "serpentine"
Style linear
Scene banquet, dual, hunting
Bibliography

van Loon 1989, 60, 418–419 no. 56, 458 no. 234: 56 and pl. 234:56.



van Loon, M.N.:“Iron Age Cylinder and Stamp Seals”. In: Schmidt(†), E.F. – van Loon, M.N. – Curvers, H.H. (eds.), The Holmes Expeditions to Luristan (Text – Plates) (Oriental Institute Publications 108) Chicago, Illinois, 1989, 413–474.