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LOT 1213
Luristan Bronze Ibex Pendant
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
1 3/4 in. (29 grams, 46 mm).
With bands to the joints, collar to the neck and loop. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection.
Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
Literature
Cf. Engel, N. et al., Bronzes du Luristan: Énigmes de l'Iran Ancien IIIe-Ier millénaire av.J-C., Paris, 2008, item 103; see also the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, accession number 72.45, for a similar example; Muscarella, O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, item 293, for type.
Footnotes
Pendants in the form of animals, mostly goats or mouflons, but also horses or other equids, are quite common among the corpus of the Luristan pendants.
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