Description: English: Profile of a Striped Hyena from Velavadar Blackbuck National Park, Gujarat, India. Date: 26 December 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Mvshreeram.
Description: Skull of Striped Hyena (Hyaena brunnea Syn. Parahyaena brunnea). Date: 1908. Source: Guide to the elephants (recent and fossil) in the British Museum gallery. Author: British Museum of Natural History. Permission(Reusing this file): pd-old.
Description: English: Double-Sided Pendant Seal with a Persian Hunting and Herakles about 400 B.C. 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) Culture: Achaemenid. Date: circa 400 BC. Source: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103VS0?altImage=a2d1dace-21d5-4b22-92b9-9e6ae740f203. Author: Unknown artist/maker.