File:Double-Sided Pendant Seal with a Persian Hunting and Herakles, about 400 B.C. (back B).jpg

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English: Double-Sided Pendant Seal with a Persian Hunting and Herakles

about 400 B.C. Unknown artist/maker

A small number of Achaemenid seals take the form of tear-shaped chalcedony pendants engraved on both sides. All appear to be products of a single workshop, probably in one of the empire’s western satrapies (perhaps in Lydia or Ionia). On one side of this drop-shaped pendant a mounted Persian shoots arrows at a running hyena, while on the other side a nude, unbearded Herakles stands with club raised and a lion’s skin draped over one arm. Greek deities and other themes were only rarely employed on Achaemenid gems, and the significance is uncertain.

Place: Achaemenid (Persian) Empire, Asia Minor (Place Created)

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Achaemenid
Date circa 400 BC
Source https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103VS0?altImage=8b8aeac0-d133-4fbc-80b0-0bfaf12a3a26
Author Getty Museum

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