Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02075 |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) thrusts his spear at a charging boar. The spear has a round butt at its end. The horse has a fringed saddle rug on its back. Behind the hunter is the high back of the saddle or a bow in quiver (gorytos). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- boar: charging - horse: with a fringed saddle rug on its back - hunter: Median, spearman, holding a spear with a round butt, with a bow in a quiver (gorytos) behind him or the high back of the saddle |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection |
| Museum number | MMA L55.49.127 – Mrs Moore 119 |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | ex-Mrs William H. Moore Collection; on loan to the MMA by The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr. from 1955 |
| First occurence | before 1940 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 22; d: 10 |
| Material and features | "agate" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Transliteration |
N/A |
| Translation | N/A |
| Bibliography |
Eisen 1940, 55 no. 104 and pl. XI. Eisen, G. A.: Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals with a Description of the Collection of Mrs. William H. Moore. (Oriental Institute Publications 47) Chicago, 1940. |
| Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |