Horse-riding Median spearman hunting bear
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A horse-riding Median hunter (spearman) wearing nomadic clothing thrusts his spear at a rampant bear. The horse has tassells on its tail. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bear: rampant - horse: charging; with tassels on its tail - hunter: Median, horse rider, spearman, wearing nomadic clothing |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF |
| Museum number | Delaporte.404 |
| Condition, shape | chip below the bear |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | N/A |
| First occurence | 1899 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 28, d: 10 |
| Material and features | "cornaline" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Delaporte 1910, 225 no. 404 and pl. XXVIII. Delaporte, L.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothèque Nationale. I–II. Paris, 1910. |