Horse-riding nomadic spearman hunting lion with dog (hound)


Horse-riding nomadic spearman hunting lion with dog (hound)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image A horse-riding hunter (spearman) wearing a nomadic garment and headdress (bashlyk) aims his spear at a rampant lion. The spear is barbed and has a round butt at its end. The rider has a bow case (gorytos) at his waist and is sitting on a fringed saddle rug. Next to the horse is a hunting dog (hound) heading towards the lion. Above the latter is a winged sun-disc.
Figures, motifs/symbols - dog (hound)
- horse: galloping, has a fringed saddle rug on its back
- hunter: spearman, wearing a nomadic garment and headdress (bashlyk), has a bow case (gorytos) at his waist, holding a barbed spear with a round butt at its end
- lion: rampant
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection Buffalo Museum of Science
Museum number N/A
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance gift of Mr and Mrs Chauncey J. Hamlin
First occurence 1944
Archaeological context N/A
Registration number N/A
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter N/A
Material and features N/A
Style linear
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Ingholt 1944, 11 and 12 no. 29.



Ingholt, H.: “World-famous Cylinder Seals Reflect 3,000 Years of History”. Hobbies: The Magazine of the Buffalo Museum of Science 25/1 (1944) 2–12.