Horse-riding Median spearman hunting boar below a winged sun-disc

Object no.	S00910
Description of the seal image	A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) thrusts his spear at a charging boar. Above the latter is a winged sun-disc without a central disc. The figures are placed on a groundline.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- boar: charging - groundline - horse: charging, with a tasselled saddle rug on its back - hunter: spearman, horse rider, wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk), holding a spear with a round butt - winged sun-disc: without central disc
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum
Museum Number	VA 4282
Culture / Production Place	Achaemenid
Provenance	acquired in trade
First Occurrence	1940
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter	h: 35, d: 13
Material and features	"Achat"
Style	modelled details
Scene	hunting
Bibliography	Moortgat 1940, 79, 152 no. 769 and Taf. 90. Moortgat, A.: Vorderasiatische Rollsiegel. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst. Berlin, 1940.

Object history

Divine World Glyptics