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 tasselled headgear thrusts his barbed spear at a rampant lion. The horse has a saddle rug on its back.
Figures, motifs/symbols - horse: charging, with a saddle rug on its back
- hunter: horse rider, spearman, wearing a tasselled headgear
- lion: rampant
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM ANE 89583 – N 1082
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance from Sir Austen Henry Layard's expeditions to Mesopotamia between 1845 and 1851
First occurence 1845–1851
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 25, d: 11
Material and features "sparry calcite: grey, strongly translucent"
Style linear
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Merrillees 2005, 49 no. 9 and pl. IV.



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.