Sassanian Black Stone Fragment with Hunting and Battle Scenes

5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

2 3/4 in. (50.3 grams, 70 mm).

Comprising: rectangular plaque and stepped finial; the plaque with beaded border and hatched inner band framing figural scenes in two registers; finial with horseman aiming his bow while galloping forwards, dead animals at his horse's hooves; underside segmented.

Provenance

Ex 'S' collection, London, UK.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

CONDITION

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LOT 0322