| Object Number | B14542 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Elamite |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Period | Archaic |
| Date Made | pre 3000 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Iconography | Hunter | Dog |
| Description | black, flat, rectangular. convex back with eight dots. images of hunter and dogs. Elamite Style PBS XIV: a nude hunter and three dogs. the hunter is an awkward figure, with bird like head, one arm extended, the other hanging and holding a curved stick or club. The uncertain line over the shoulder may represent a bow. The horned head between the dogs may represent the game, antelope or ibex. There is a flat crescent above and a second unfinished, nude hunter below. rough work with burr and point. flat rectangular seal, with convex back, adorned with eight large dots. black marble, 47 x 28 mm. MS. Coll. CBS Register: flat rectangular seal. convex back with 8 dots, black marble. Archaic, before 3000 BC. Elamite style, hunter, dogs. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | PBS XIV: 1h - Other Number | P269508 - CDLI Number |
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