Scabbard Tip

first half 5th century BCE (Achaemenid)

7.2 cm 5.2 cm 1.3 cm

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This ornament once decorated the tip of a sword's scabbard. In a relief carved on a wall of the palace of the Achaemenid king Darius I (reigned 522-486 BCE), a man is depicted wearing a scabbard with a nearly identical tip. The design derives from an image of a lion attacking...

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The Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1999, by purchase.
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