332 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
a hunting scene, or whether it is not rather mythological; but it may be well to 
include it here for the sake of showing the form of the ax with which the hero hunter 
attacks the bull which he has seized by the horn. 
We have again a hunting scene in fig. 1074. ‘The archer on his knee aims 
at a stag, while an eagle waits for the prey. In fig. 1075, under a Persian disk 
of Ahura-mazda, with long wings, a hunter on horseback thrusts his spear at 
an ibex and is aided by a dog. In fig. 1076 a similar hunter on horseback flings 
his spear at a lion; and in fig. 1077 a horseman spears a bear. This is the only 
case I know where a bear is figured on the cylinders. ‘The art appears Persian. 

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In fig. 1078 the horseman spears an ibex. Both horse and ibex are drawn very 
stout, as in much of the Persian art. Persian also appears to be fig. 1079, where the 
hunter on horseback flings his spear at a gazelle. This cylinder is interesting for 
the unusual arrangement of the inscription. 
We have an extraordinary and unique scene in the cylinder shown in fig. 1080. 
Here a hunter with Persian crown and garments is mounted on a camel and hurls 
his spear at a lion. I do not recall any other case in which the camel appears on a 
cylinder. In fig. 1081 the mounted archer shoots at a stag and a similar seal may 
be seen in de Clercq’s “ Catalogue,”’ No. 362. In fig. 1082 the hunter has dismounted 
from his horse and spears a boar. There is an Aramaic inscription of four letters, 
which Levy (“‘Siegeln und Gemmen,” I. p. 16) reads “ Panzuk,” which he regards 
as a Persian form ending in k. In fig. 1083 the hunter has a charioteer and turns 
back to shoot his arrow at an uncertain animal, while in a lower register are a tree, 


