Detail of chased silver metalwork with gilding, depicting a Persian hunter on horseback nocking an arrow to shoot a boar.

Detail, Plate; Metalwork, Vessel; 4th century; Sasanian period; Silver and gilt; H x Diam: 5 x 24 cm (1 15/16 x 9 7/16 in); Iran; Purchase; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; F1934.23

Bookshelf: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Ann C. Gunter, ed., Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1990).

Ann C. Gunter and Paul Jett, Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1992).

Bookshelf: Ancient Near Eastern Art

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