Stradanus - some hunt art

 Salvete Omnes,

Jan van Sreaet aka Stradanus- more-hunt related art : hunting lions, elephants, bulls, ibexes, ostrich, hare etc

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this is a bit rare - hunting bulls with hawks or some raptors

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a bit bloodthirsty collection, but all in all excellent art and skills.  

Valete

Alexander sarcophagus in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums - hunt on the long side

Salvete Omnes,

the long side of the sarcophagus - shows a  lion  and stag hunt - done by both Macedonians and Persians

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New Sassanian article by Patryk Skupniewicz

 Salvete Omnes,

my friend Patryk Skupnewicz uploaded his new article on the Academia platform.
Profusely illustrated with many Sassanian lion hunt exmaples and well argued it can be a blast. -:)

You can have it from here - along with his other scholarly articles.

and my old drawing from the Parthian-period tile showing an armored rider attacking a lion (the artefact is held at the British Museum and the photo, attached above, is available on Wiki Commons).

Valete

Kurgan Solokha - Russian book & articles

Salvete Omnes,
a short entry on this last day before the last day of 2019.- :)

Academia has the entire Russian book dedicated to one of the most famous Pontic Scythian kurgans - The Solokha kurgan, the story of the collection by the Russian prolific researcher, academic Anastasia Petrovna Mantsevich ( А. П. Манцевич)- available for perusing or downloading for the future study.
Here you can seen a photo of the famous vessel with the hunting scenes from Solokha.
 
 Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky (Николай Иванович Веселовский) excavated the Solokha kurgan and the present site is located on the Dniepr River (ukr. Дніпро,   ros. Днепр, pol. Dniepr  ) not far the town of Nikopol in Ukraine.

Also, you may find of interest three separate articles by Mrs Anastasia P. Mantsevich on or about the objects from the Solokha kurgan-
-The Golden Comb from Solokha Kurgan - Золотой гребень из кургана Солоха (1949)  - from the kronk site.
the large photo of the comb comes from the article


 the second article on the Solokha comb(1962) - from the kronk site.


 another article on the comb and the phiale (patera) -  the kronk site. - it contains another photo of the hunting scenes vessel


- The Parade or Ceremonial Sword from the Solokha Kurgan (in Russian from the annales site, or with large scans of images from the kronk site , but can be translated by any internet translators)

 
Article by M.I. Artamonov about Solokha - the kronk site.

valete

Professor Jozef Wolski (1910-2008)

Salvete Omnes,
today a quick entry. It has been a while since I visited the ancient Iran.
Hence I would like to take bring to your attention the person and scholarship of professor Jozef W. Wolski, Polish scholar and gentleman, whose life and work has been nicely brought together in this article by professor Marek Olbrycht (another version from Iranica).
You can download the Wolski's doctoral thesis - Arsaces I of Parthia - , in Polish, from the Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa - 1937 and 1938 issues of Quarterly EOS.
I am including in this post my sketch of the Parthian kontophoros or heavy lancer hunting a lion, a copy from a Babylonian ceramic tile (held at the British Museum).

lion hunt

Valete!