Object no. | S01115 |
Description of the seal image | A hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), thrusts his spear at a rampant bear. The hunter holds a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand to lure the bear. |
Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bear: rampant - hunter: spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), holding a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand |
Subcategory | cylinder seal |
Collection | Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF |
Museum Number | Delaporte.405 |
Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
Culture / Production Place | Achaemenid |
Provenance | acquired in 1857 |
First Occurrence | 1857 |
Archaeological context | N/A |
Registration number | N/A |
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter | h: 25, d: 12 |
Material and features | "cornaline" |
Style | modelled |
Scene | hunting |
Bibliography |
Delaporte 1910, 225 no. 405 and pl. XXVIII. Delaporte, L.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothèque Nationale. I–II. Paris, 1910. |
Object history |