Median spearman hunting bear
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | A hunter (spearman) wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), thrusts his spear at a rampant bear. The hunter holds a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand to lure the bear. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- bear: rampant - hunter: spearman, wearing a Median garment and headdress (bashlyk), holding a fringed saddle rug in his lowered left hand |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF |
| Museum number | Delaporte.405 |
| Condition, shape | slightly chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Achaemenid |
| Provenance | acquired in 1857 |
| First occurence | 1857 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 25, d: 12 |
| Material and features | "cornaline" |
| Style | modelled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Delaporte 1910, 225 no. 405 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. |