Stamp-cylinder seal: Royal hero (spearman) hunting boar (cylinder image) – two quadrupeds back-to-back (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Royal hero (spearman) hunting boar (cylinder image) – two quadrupeds back-to-back (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The cylinder image depicts the royal hero (spearman) wearing Persian clothing (court robe). The hunter thrusts his spear at a charging boar with his left hand. He appears to be holding another weapon in his right hand. Between the two figures is a small, lotus-like plant, while above the boar is a winged sun-disc. On the stamp image, there are two quadrupeds back-to-back.
Figures, motifs/symbols - boar: charging
- plant: lotus-like, small
- quadrupeds (2): back-to-back, on stamp image
- royal hero: spearman, hunter, wearing Persian clothing (court robe), holding another weapon in his right hand
- winged sun-disc
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection Musée du Louvre
Museum number Sb 1486 (M 107)
Condition, shape worn and damaged
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance excavated in Susa in 1930–1931
First occurence 1930–1931
Registration number Sb 1486 (M 107)
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 21, d: 11
Material and features "calcaire"
Style linear
Scene animal, hunting
Bibliography

Amiet 1972, 285 no. 2205 and pl. 189.



Amiet, P.: Glyptique susienne des origines à l’époque des perses achéménides. Cachets, sceaux-cylindres et empreintes antiques découverts à Suse de 1913 à 1967. I: Texte – II: Planches (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran 43: Mission de Susiane) Paris, 1972.