between 550 and 450 B.C.
basalt ;
Morgan Seal 831
Description
1 cylinder seal : basalt ; 28 x 11 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes
"Greek elements appear ... in 831 and 832, each of which pictures a hunting scene in which the protagonist is attired like the archers of the king's bodyguard in the colored-enamel reliefs of Susa. The arrangement of the figures in 831, which shows a dog partly hidden by a huntsman, presents a rare attempt to render in realistic perspective two fiugres of different type standing beside each other. There is a comparable rendering of such figures in a Greek vase painting of the fifth century."--Porada, CANES, p. 104
Horizontal perforation in cylinder.
Horizontal perforation in cylinder.
Summary
God in winged sun disk above boar confronting hunter with spear in his hand, quiver on his back, and dog beside and partly hidden by him.
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