Horse-riding spearman hunting lion


Horse-riding spearman hunting lion
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing a conical headdress with a long tassel and trousers aims his spear at a rampant lion. The hunter is further armed with a sword at his waist. The horse has two tassells along its belly and one on its tail. Behind the figures, there is a six-line inscription separated by horizontal ruled lines.
Figures, motifs/symbols - horse: charging, with two tassells along its belly, and one on its tail
- hunter: horse rider, spearman, beardless, wearing a conical headdress with a long tassel and trousers
- inscription: cuneiform, six lines, separated by horizontal ruled lines
- lion: rampant
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum Number BM ANE 89009 – 1847-7-26, 124
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges
Culture / Production Place Neo-Elamite
Provenance "acquired from C. Scott-Stewart"
First Occurrence 1841
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 35, d: 14
Material and features "quartz, chalcedony: grey-blue"
Style modelled
Scene hunting
Writing system, language cuneiform: Neo-Elamite
Transliteration

1. v.a-a-na

2. ak-qa

3. DUMU (=šak) pír-

4. a-a-

5. ti-iš

6. na

Traduction Ainakka, son of Fraitiš.
Bibliography

Merrillees 2005, 48 no. 4 and pl. II.



Merrillees, P. H.: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods. (Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals 6) London, 2005.