Archer hunting bull
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling bearded hunter (archer) wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a prancing bull. The archer has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back. Between the two figures is an ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) with two shoots below a nine-rayed, globe-centred star. Above the bull, there is a small star next to the Sibitti (Pleiades). |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: prancing - ear of wheat ('bottle-brush' tree) - hunter: archer, bearded, half-kneeling, wearing a broad-belted tunic with a fringed lower edge, has a sword in a sheath at his waist and a tasselled quiver full of arrows on his back - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star 1: nine-rayed, globe-centred - star 2: small |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Williams Collection |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Condition, shape | slightly worn |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | ex-Williams Collection: assembled by Reverend Dr William Frederick Williams; after him, owned by Mr Robert S. Williams of Utica, New York |
| First occurence | before 1886 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 26, d: 11 |
| Material and features | "obsidian" |
| Style | linear |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1886, 255 no. 9 and pl. VI. Menant, J.: "Oriental Cylinders of the Williams Collection". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 2/3 (1886) 247–260. |