Archer hunting wild goat (ibex)


Archer hunting wild goat (ibex)
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 long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge, aims his bow at a striding wild goat (ibex). Between and behind the two figures are small, palmette-like stylised plants with a crescent moon above the taller one. A flying bird appears above the wild goat's back.
Figures, motifs/symbols - bird: flying
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom
- crescent moon
- hunter: archer, bearded, wearing a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge
- stylised plants (2): palmette-like, one taller and one shorter
- wild goat (ibex): striding
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Museum number UM 63-5-294
Condition, shape damaged lower edge
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance Tepe Hasanlu
First occurence between 1956-1977 (excavations)
Archaeological context Burned Building III, southern end of Room 9, floor
Registration number HAS 62-1091
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 36.4, 13.6
Material and features "composite material, colored pink, beige, and black"
Style sintered quartz
Scene hunting
Bibliography

Marcus 1996, 119–120 no. 65 and pl. 20.



Marcus, M.I.: Emblems of Identity and Prestige: The Seals and Sealings from Hasanlu, Iran: Commentary and Catalog. (University Museum Monograph 84. Hasanlu Special Studies 3) Philadelphia, 1996.