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Seal with a Persian Hunting a Stag (impression)
Unknown-0400/-0350
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Hunting was a prestigious activity of the Persian aristocracy, and Achaemenid seals of the fifth and fourth centuries BC frequently depict Persians on horseback or on foot pursuing a variety of quarries, including lions, boar, stags, wild goats, foxes, and hyenas. On this scaraboid, a Persian on foot shoots an arrow at a running stag.
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- Title: Seal with a Persian Hunting a Stag (impression)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: -0400/-0350
- Location Created: Achaemenid (Persian Empire), Asia Minor
- Subject Keywords: Gem
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Blue chalcedony
- Culture: Achaemenid
- Classification: Jewelry
- Accession Number: 84.AN.1.15
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