Finial with Two Felines

10th-8th century BCE (Iron Age)

7 cm 15 cm 1.8 cm

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Finials for ceremonial standards and bridle bits with animal forms are characteristic of the metalwork produced by the hunter societies of Luristan ca. the 10th-8th century BCE. The life of the hunter is built around animals, as food, transportation, and the embodiment of the...

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25433
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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माध्यम
lost-wax-cast bronze
विधा
Metal finials

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