Object no. | S00035 |
Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded hunter (archer) wearing a long, triple-belted robe with a fringed lower hem aims his bow at a bull. The hunter has a quiver with arrows on his back. Above the bull, there are two wedges. |
Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: standing, head turned backwards - hunter: archer, standing, with quiver and arrows, wearing a long, triple-belted robe with a fringed lower hem - wedges (2) |
Subcategory | bead cylinder seal |
Collection | The British Museum |
Museum Number | BM WA 139985 – 1856-9-3, 90 |
Culture / Production Place | Neo-Assyrian |
Provenance | acquired by W. K. Loftus at Sherif-Khan |
First Occurrence | 1856 |
Archaeological context | N/A |
Registration number | N/A |
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 26, d: 11 |
Material and features | "Faience: now grey and pale yellow with minute traces of bright green glaze surviving. Analysis by XRD and XRF showed that a yellow opacifier and a copper colourant were used [MS]. The design has been filled with glaze so that this object must have been a bead rather than a seal. It is, however, included here because it demonstrates that the same techniques were used for producing beads and seals" (Collon 2001, 45 no. 35). |
Style | sintered quartz |
Scene | hunting |
Bibliography |
Collon 2001, 45 no. 35 and pls. III and XLIII. Collon, D.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 5) London, 2001. |
Object history |