Seal with a Persian Hunting a Stag (impression)

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.