Iconography

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Animals / Hunting scenes / Lion hunt
Western Asia / Portraits / Rulers / Persia / Darius I
Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Divine symbols / Sun disk

SOCIAL LIFE

Hunting / Hunting by quarry / Lion

Further details

Cylinder seal impression

Artist or creator

Ancient Persian (Achaemenid)

Date

6th century BC - 5th century BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. Middle East)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Saxl Mithras Material

Bibliographic Citation

Saxl, Lectures, London, 1957, pl. 14 d

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Web resources

British Museum (comparison)

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