Graeco-Persian scaraboid seal with a hunting scene

An image of Scaraboid Seal/Stamp Seal. Incised with hunting scene in which a horseman, facing right, discharges an arrow at a lion. Below, a second horseman, facing left, spears a wild boar. Chalcedony, cloudy, depth 0.025 m, length 0.012 m, width 0.031 m, 500-301 B.C. Graeco-Persian.

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Scaraboid Seal/Stamp Seal. Incised with hunting scene in which a horseman, facing right, discharges an arrow at a lion. Below, a second horseman, facing left, spears a wild boar. Chalcedony, cloudy, depth 0.025 m, length 0.012 m, width 0.031 m, 500-301 B.C. Graeco-Persian.

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Accession Number: ANE.2.1864
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 866 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 93.58kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1

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4th Century 5th Century Ancient Greece animal arrows BC boar boar hunt bow and arrow bowman chalcedony Fitz_ANT Graeco-Persian horseback horseman horses hunter hunting incised intaglio Persian scaraboid scaraboid seal seal spear speared stamp seal wild boar

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