Archer(?) and tree(?)


Archer(?) and tree(?)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The indistinct shapes of this schematic scene might represent an archer and a tree.
Figures, motifs/symbols - archer: hunter, uncertain
- tree: uncertain
Subcategory cylinder seal
Collection The Oriental Institute Museum
Museum number OI A25039
Condition, shape heavily worn
Culture Iranian
Provenance Surkh Dum-i-Luri
Archaeological context Area 1, elevation 2A(?)
Registration number Sor 196
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 23, d: 12
Material and features "black stone"
Style linear
Scene hunting, miscellaneous
Bibliography

van Loon 1989, 444 no. 188, 469 no. 246: 188 and pl. 246: 148.



van Loon, M.N.:“Iron Age Cylinder and Stamp Seals”. In: Schmidt(†), E.F. – van Loon, M.N. – Curvers, H.H. (eds.), The Holmes Expeditions to Luristan (Text – Plates) (Oriental Institute Publications 108) Chicago, Illinois, 1989, 413–474.