A PERSIAN BRONZE PLAQUE
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
A PERSIAN BRONZE PLAQUE CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C. Probably a section from a belt, with the repoussé figures of two addorsed winged felines, their tails entwined, a recumbent ibex beneath, another feline seated to the right, its head turned back towards them, to the right a central sacred tree with long branches emerging from either side of the trunk, each one with clusters of pomegranate fruit and a single pine cone, a rampant ibex on either side, details incised, with multiple piercings for attachment around the edge and through the middle with twenty stud bosses remaining 16½ in. (42 cm.) long
A PERSIAN BRONZE PLAQUE
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
A PERSIAN BRONZE PLAQUE CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C. Probably a section from a belt, with the repoussé figures of two addorsed winged felines, their tails entwined, a recumbent ibex beneath, another feline seated to the right, its head turned back towards them, to the right a central sacred tree with long branches emerging from either side of the trunk, each one with clusters of pomegranate fruit and a single pine cone, a rampant ibex on either side, details incised, with multiple piercings for attachment around the edge and through the middle with twenty stud bosses remaining 16½ in. (42 cm.) long
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