CIRCA 850-650 B.C.
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A LURISTAN BRONZE ANTHROPOMORPHIC 'FERTILITY' TUBE
CIRCA 850-650 B.C.
With janiform central female figure wearing a headdress and clasping her breasts, flanked by two cock head protomes, 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high; a Luristan 'Master-of-Animals' standard with janiform central figure, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high; a bronze whetstone handle with moufflon-headed terminal, the tapering shaft with linear grooved panels and a zigzag border, one horn missing, 4½ in. (11.6 cm.) long; a bronze cylindrical tube decorated in relief with four vertical snakes with wavy bodies between rope pattern borders, 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high; a bronze penannular bracelet with twin bird terminals, 3½ in. (8.9 cm.) across max., all early 1st millennium B.C.; a group of bronze standing male figures and animal amulets, including bulls, rams and dogs, 1¼ in. (3.1 cm.) high max., all late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.; a bronze buckle with belt attachment plate; a silver belt buckle; a bronze ladle with griffin-head handle terminal, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. or earlier, 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high; a Persian pottery jar with twin lug handles and brown painted encircling lines, each side with two birds, rim chips, early 1st millennium B.C., 3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high; an engraved oyster shell, the inner pearlescent surface with two hatched friezes and dotted circles, Sassanian period, late 3rd/early 4th Century A.D. or earlier, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) across; a shell, pierced twice; and a rod, pointed at both ends, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long(a lot)
CIRCA 850-650 B.C.
With janiform central female figure wearing a headdress and clasping her breasts, flanked by two cock head protomes, 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high; a Luristan 'Master-of-Animals' standard with janiform central figure, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high; a bronze whetstone handle with moufflon-headed terminal, the tapering shaft with linear grooved panels and a zigzag border, one horn missing, 4½ in. (11.6 cm.) long; a bronze cylindrical tube decorated in relief with four vertical snakes with wavy bodies between rope pattern borders, 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high; a bronze penannular bracelet with twin bird terminals, 3½ in. (8.9 cm.) across max., all early 1st millennium B.C.; a group of bronze standing male figures and animal amulets, including bulls, rams and dogs, 1¼ in. (3.1 cm.) high max., all late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.; a bronze buckle with belt attachment plate; a silver belt buckle; a bronze ladle with griffin-head handle terminal, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. or earlier, 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high; a Persian pottery jar with twin lug handles and brown painted encircling lines, each side with two birds, rim chips, early 1st millennium B.C., 3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high; an engraved oyster shell, the inner pearlescent surface with two hatched friezes and dotted circles, Sassanian period, late 3rd/early 4th Century A.D. or earlier, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) across; a shell, pierced twice; and a rod, pointed at both ends, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long(a lot)
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