strip
- Museum number
- 134384
- Description
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Fragmentary gold strip with embossed and chased decoration showing two lion-like animals arranged in antithetical pairs, each of the beasts separated by a raised, apparently soldered, circle which was presumably intended to hold a coloured inlay (missing); the beasts have triangular ears and large eyes, and their legs and tails end in spirals; along the top and bottom edges of the strips, there are bird's heads (possibly eagles) with long curled beaks, placed back to back; the ears and eyes of the leonine beasts, and the eyes of the birds are inlaid with a blue enamel-like material.
- Production date
- 8thC BC-7thC BC (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.10 centimetres
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Weight: 24.30 grammes
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Width: 3.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also 1964,0616.1
- Location
- On display (G52/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-14 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/14/11
1977 London, BM, 'Animals in Art'
- Acquisition date
- 1964
- Acquisition notes
- Previous ownership according to R. Ghirshman (Sept Mille Ans, p. 84).
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134384
- Registration number
- 1964,0616.2
