Horse-riding archer hunting bull

Kategória	Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image	The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A horse-riding hunter (archer) wearing a short tunic with a fringed lower edge turns backwards and aims his bow at a galloping bull (performing a Parthian shot). There seems to be another horse beside the other. A large and a small crescent moon is above the bull's head and above the horses' heads, respectively. There is a six-rayed star above the bull's raised foreleg, while probably an unfinished rhomb appears below it, likely representing a plant. Between the necks of the horses and the bull is a wedge.
Figures, motifs/symbols	- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - bull: galloping - crescent moon 1: large - crescent moon 2: small, with a serrated arc on one side - horses (2): galloping - hunter: horse rider, archer, wearing a short tunic with a fringed lower edge - rhomb: unfinished (?) - star: six-rayed - wedge: cuneiform
Subcategory	cylinder seal
Collection	Chiha Collection
Museum number	N/A
Culture	Neo-Assyrian
Provenance	acquired by Michel Chiha in trade in Lebanon between 1925 and 1945; Chiha Collection
First occurence	before 1945
Archaeological context	N/A
Registration number	N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter	h: 32.5, d: 13.5
Material and features	"serpentine noire"
Style	linear
Scene	hunting
Bibliography	Doumet 1992, 77 no. 136. Doumet, C.: Sceaux et cylindres orientaux: la collection Chiha. (Orbis Biblicus Orientalis, Series Archaeologica 9) Fribourg – Göttingen, 1992.