Archer hunting gazelle (antelope) and worshipper behind him
| Kategória | Cylinder Seals |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A half-kneeling hunter (archer) aims his bow at a gazelle (antelope) with bunched legs standing on a mountain shaped by three globes and there is a worshipper behind him. Above the gazelle are the Sibitti (Pleiades). Between the hunter and his prey is likely a vessel below a crescent moon. There is a rhomb below a six-rayed, globe-centred star and between the beardless worshipper wearing a long robe and the hunter. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - gazelle (antelope): with buched legs - hunter: archer, half-kneeling - mountain: shaped by globes (3) - rhomb - Sibitti (Pleiades) - star: six-rayed, globe-centred - vessel - worshipper: beardless, wearing a long robe |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden; formerly kept in the Cabinet Royal des Médailles à la Haye |
| Museum number | M.145 |
| Condition, shape | chipped upper and lower edges |
| Culture | Neo-Assyrian |
| Provenance | acquired by the the Cabinet Royal des Médailles à la Haye, before 1878 |
| First occurence | 1878 |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 18.5, d: 10.5 |
| Material and features | "calcédoine", "cornaline rose" |
| Style | cut |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1878, 58 no. 145 – 127. Menant, J.: Catalogue des cylindres orientaux du Cabinet Royal des Médailles de La Haye. La Haye, 1878. Zadoks-Josephus 1952, 33 no. 122*. Zadoks-Josephus J.A.N.: Catalogue sommaire des cylindres orientaux au Cabinet royal des médailles à La Haye. (En collaboration avec R. Frankena) La Haye, 1952. |