The medallion shows a mounted huntsman, facing backwards, with a falcon on his wrist. Below, a long-tailed hound pursues a hare, also with its head turned. The horse's tail is knotted and its trappings and the saddlecloth are elaborately decorated with beading. Relief-stamped coloured glass medallions were excavated in the ruins of a twelfth-century palace at Termez on the Oxus, close to the Afghan-Uzbek frontier. Some have inscriptions dating them to the late Ghaznavid period (mid-twelfth century). They have also been reported at Ghazna in Afghanistan and may well have decorated other Ghaznavid palaces, for example at Nishapur. Too small and insufficiently translucent for window-panes, they were probably used to crown a stucco dado, where their remarkable detail could best be appreciated.