Horse-riding Median spearman hunting boar below a winged sun-disc
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| 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 | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | acquired in trade |
| First occurence | 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. |