Median spearman hunting boar


Median spearman hunting boar
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) aims his spear at a charging boar and holds a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in the other hand. The figures are set on a groundline. Above the boar, a four-letter alphabetic inscription appears.
Figures, motifs/symbols - boar: charging
- groundline
- hunter: spearman, wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk), holding a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in one hand
- inscription: alphabetic
Subcategory bead cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum number BM ANE 103005 – 1909-5-8, 5
Condition, shape "the seal ... may have been reworked from a bead" (Merrillees 2005, 50 no. 11); slightly barrel-shaped
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance acquired from J. J. Naaman
First occurence 1909
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 27.5, d: 11 (13)
Material and features "limestone: black"
Style linear
Scene hunting
Writing system, language Alphabetic. Aramaic.
Transliteration

N/A
Translation N/A
Bibliography

Merrillees 2005, 50 no. 11 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.