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Source Description
This top for a rod from a chariot is cast bronze, and depicts a figure with hands clasped before the neck and feet turned in. The piece also has necks with heads, extending from the shoulder to the head, making two rings for straps. There are extra legs at the sides, making the bottom an open circle. The back is the same as the front. The piece has bronze disease.
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Document identity
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9805
label
Master of Animals Finial
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object
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Source metadata
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9805
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object
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normalized
title
Master of Animals Finial
description
This top for a rod from a chariot is cast bronze, and depicts a figure with hands clasped before the neck and feet turned in. The piece also has necks with heads, extending from the shoulder to the head, making two rings for straps. There are extra legs at the sides, making the bottom an open circle. The back is the same as the front. The piece has bronze disease.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from the Caucasus]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
10th-8th century BCE (Iron Age)
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CC0
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en
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Metal
finials
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 5 3/16 in. (13.1 cm)
Source extras
cul
Iranian
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bronze
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6747
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ANE
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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