- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Pin with plain shank. Three bands of raised molding decorated with incised lines encircle the upper shank below the head. The head is cast as a flat plaque, both surfaces rendered as a lion-mask (?); ears, eyes, and nose are modeled in low relief articulated by incised lines. Whiskers incised.
- Label
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Bronze pins with decorated heads were popular personal ornaments in the ancient Near East, used by both men and women to fasten their garments. Many pins of this type, often decorated with animal figures, have been recovered from cemeteries in western Iran dating from the second and early first millennia B.C.E.
- Collection Area(s)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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