Bull pursuing gazelle (antelope)
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A bull pursues a gazelle (antelope). Above the latter is a crescent moon. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bull: charging - crescent moon - gazelle (antelope) |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre |
| Museum number | Sb 6453 |
| Culture | Neo-Elamite |
| Provenance | excavated at Susa by R. Ghirshmann |
| First occurence | 1954 |
| Archaeological context | level A-VII |
| Registration number | GS 3147 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 22, d: 9 |
| Material and features | calcaire |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | animal |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Bibliography |
Amiet 1972, 283 no. 2196 and pl. 188. Amiet, P.: Glyptique susienne des origines à l’époque des perses achéménides. Cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques découverts à Suse de 1913 à 1967. I: Texte – II: Planches (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran 43: Mission de Susiane) Paris, 1972. |