Scabbard Tip
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...
Artifact
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35769
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object
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
The Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1999, by purchase.
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| rightsUri |
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CC0
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| language |
language
en
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pageCount
1
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import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.1199_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.1199_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.1199_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1199 |
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ivory
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