Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
![Horse-riding hero (spearman) hunting rampant lion-dragon [modern copy]](/uploads/galleries/a/e/f/9/original_aef9f5785c462a00131062446d59f375.jpg)
| Object no. | S00937 |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding hero (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk) aims his spear at a rampant lion-dragon. His horse has a fringed saddle rug on its back. Below the horse's belly and the hybrid creature, there is an alphabetic inscription reaching the hybrid creature. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- hero: horse rider, spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), holding a spear with a round butt - horse: charging, with a fringed saddle rug on its back - inscription: alphabetic - lion-dragon: rampant, horned, winged |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | The British Museum |
| Museum Number | BM ANE 132504 – 1959-2-14, 2 |
| Culture / Production Place | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | metal copy bequeathed by Miss M. F. T. Ready; the original seal was in the Woodhouse Collection in about 1862 |
| First Occurrence | 1959 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 23, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "This hollow metal seal was examined by Andrew Oddy and Nigel Meeks (Department of Scientific Research, British Museum, unpublished report, 1979, file 4389) using scanning electron microscopy and EDX analysis. The cylinder was formed from a piece of copper sheet and the seam was joined with soft (lead/tin) solder. A perforated brass (copper and zinc) disc was soldered to each end. The surface of the copper and one of the brass ends are covered with a worn layer of silver, possibly also attached by soft solder, and the inside of the seal is coated with very fresh-looking solder. In view of the uncorroded state of the metal components, it seems likely that this seal is modern (see Chapter VI.1.2; the seal is omitted from the statistics in that chapter). M.S." |
| Authenticity (public) | modern copy of no. 393 in Bollmann Collection in Switzerland |
| Style | imitation, modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Writing system, language | Alphabetic. Aramaic. |
| Transliteration |
l-'rtym |
| Traduction | Property of ... |
| Bibliography |
Merrillees 2005, 51 no. 13 and pl. VI. Merrillees, P. H.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 6) London, 2005. |
| Object history |