Hero (archer) hunting winged horse


Hero (archer) hunting winged horse
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded hunter (archer) wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes on the top and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a jumping winged horse. Between them is a small palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves. Above the hybrid creature is a crescent moon next to the winged sun-disc, while below it is a fish. Behind the two figures is an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above another palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem.
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moon
- fish
- hero: archer, hunter, bearded, wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge
- stylised plant 1: small, palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves
- stylised plant 2: palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem
- star: eight-rayed, globe-centred
- winged horse: jumping
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection ex-Williams Collection
Museum number N/A
Culture Neo-Babylonian
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: 36, d: 14
Material and features "yellow agate"
Style cut, drilled
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Menant 1886, 255–256 no. 16 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.