Dismounted Median spearman hunting boar


Dismounted Median spearman hunting boar
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A hunter (spearman) wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk) aims his barbed spear at a charging boar and holds a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in the other hand. At his waist, he has a quiver (gorytos). Behind him stands his horse, above which there is a four-letter alphabetic inscription. All figures are set on a groundline.
Figures, motifs/symbols - boar: charging
- groundline
- horse
- hunter: spearman, wearing Median clothing and headgear (bashlyk), holding a tasselled cloth (probably a saddle rug) in one hand, with a quiver (gorytos) at his waist; the spear is barbed and has a round butt at its end
- inscription: four-letter, alphabetic
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The British Museum
Museum Number BM ANE 89144 – 1846-5-23, 353
Condition, shape chipped upper and lower edges; large chip below the horse
Culture / Production Place Achaemenid
Provenance ex-J. R. Steuart Collection
First Occurrence 1846
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm), height, diameter h: 33, d: 22
Material and features "quartz, chalcedony: mottled, blue and grey-blue"
Style modelled
Scene hunting
Writing system, language Alphabetic. Aramaic.
Transliteration

N/A
Bibliography

Merrillees 2005, 50–51 no. 12 and pl. V.



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.