Median hunter (spearman) hunting boar
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The figures of the scene are set on a groundline. A hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headgear (bashlyk) thrusts his spear at a charging boar. In his left hand, he holds a tasselled cloth (saddle rug) to lure the animal. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- boar: charging - groundline - hunter: spearman, wearing a Median garment and headgear (bashlyk), holding a barbed spear with a round butt in one hand, and a tasselled cloth (saddle rug) in the other |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum |
| Museum number | VA 6967 |
| Condition, shape | barrel-shaped |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | excavated at Babylon |
| First occurence | 1940 |
| Archaeological context | Babylon |
| Registration number | Bab. 35730 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 30, d: 16 |
| Material and features | "Achat" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Moortgat 1940, 79, 152 no. 772 and Taf. 90. Moortgat, A.: Vorderasiatische Rollsiegel. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst. Berlin, 1940. |