Stamp-cylinder seal: Two figures having sexual intercourse (cylinder image) – hunting dog (hound) chasing lion (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Two figures having sexual intercourse (cylinder image) – hunting dog (hound) chasing lion (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The upper third of the object has been broken off. The remaining scene of the cylinder image depicts two figures having sexual intercourse. The stamp image shows a hunting dog (hound) chasing a lion.
Figures, motifs/symbols - dog (hound)
- human figures (2): having sexual intercourse
- lion
Subcategory stamp cylinder
Collection Musée du Louvre
Museum number Sb 5441 (F 131)
Condition, shape the upper third of the object has been broken off
Culture Achaemenid
Provenance Susa in 1924
First occurence 1924
Registration number Sb 5441 (F 131)
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 11+, d: 9
Material and features "schiste brun"
Style linear
Scene animal, erotic
Bibliography

Mecquenem 1925, 11 and 15 no. 55.



Mecquenem, R. de: “Inventaires de cachets et de cylindres.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archeologie Orientale 22 (1925) 1–15.



Amiet 1972, 286 no. 2220 and pl. 190.



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.