Archer hunting bull

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
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