CIRCA LATE 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
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An Urartian bronze belt with a bull and lion hunt
Circa late 8th-7th Century B.C.
Of hammered sheet bronze with the upper and lower borders pierced for attachment, with chased decoration in three registers of a hunting scene, showing columns of animals and mythological beasts including winged griffins, bulls, lions and bird-like creatures with human bodies brandishing double-axes or shooting arrows, with huntsmen on horseback wearing conical helmets, with rosettes as filling ornament and guilloche pattern dividing the friezes, repaired, mounted on perspex stand
27 in. (68.5 cm.) long; 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high
Circa late 8th-7th Century B.C.
Of hammered sheet bronze with the upper and lower borders pierced for attachment, with chased decoration in three registers of a hunting scene, showing columns of animals and mythological beasts including winged griffins, bulls, lions and bird-like creatures with human bodies brandishing double-axes or shooting arrows, with huntsmen on horseback wearing conical helmets, with rosettes as filling ornament and guilloche pattern dividing the friezes, repaired, mounted on perspex stand
27 in. (68.5 cm.) long; 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high