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162- Bronze Bar, Bit; A figure standing ont he back of a winged
horse, under its hooves two recumbent animals Luristan-Iran 8th-7th C. BC 157- Bronze Bar Bit; Wild mountain goat, in profile, with its head seen frontally, a bird's head on its rump. Luristan-Iran 8th-7th C. BC 239- Bronze Rhyton; in form of a gazelle's head; eyes and eyebrows originally inlaid with incrustation, now lost. Between the horns is an engraved representation of a tree of life with birds on its brances flanked by wild mountain goats. A row of wild mountain goats is placed on the lip of the rhyton. The vessel has double walls which, on the inside, are attached to each other with bitumen. North West-Iran 8th-7th C. BC Bronze Figurine of A woman; Her long hair, held together by a barrette, falls down her back. She wears large circular earrings and several necklaces. Her long robe has wide-banging sleeves which form a series of parallel folds on her back. Decorated belt. She is shown in the gesture of the chaste Venus with one hand on her right breast, while the other is in her lap. The statuette is hollow cast and attached to a support that is higher than her head and crowned by a bird Luristan-Iran 8th-7th C. BC 422- Bronze Bell; Four ducks faces each other on top. Eight ribs encloses a small round stone. Pir-Kouh, Gilan-Iran 12th C. BC 420- Bronze Adz, Long blade surmounted by a goat with a ring beneath the beard and another smaller ring behind him. A thin horned ox head on the blade. Gilan- Iran, 12th C. BC |
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