Details

LOT 1153

Hasanlu Bronze Pin with Ram's Head Finial

9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

6 1/2 in. (110 grams, 16.5 cm).

With a tapering round-section shank, finial topped with a ram's head. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the collection of late George Withers, UK.
Acquired from Dore and Rees, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

Literature

See Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p.45, no.51, for similar.

Footnotes

The corpus of pins from Hasanlu includes simple plain pins, pins with lion's head and other zoomorphic pins. The zoomorphic pins were either cast onto a bronze shank or the pin was inserted into a hollow of the head. A third category was that of the pins cast in one piece, like our specimen, representing a goat or mouflon, an animal often depicted in the North-West Persian material culture.