Lot 65
65
Property from the Collection of RICHARD AND DOROTHY RODGERS
A PAIR OF ZIWIYE GOLD IBEX BRACTEATE

Details
A PAIR OF ZIWIYE GOLD IBEX BRACTEATE
CIRCA LATE 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of opposing ibex, reclining with the feet folded under their bodies, of stamped and cut sheet gold, with separately soldered suspension loops on each in back.
Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York

Lot Essay

The so-called Ziwiye treasure, now dispersed, was discovered in 1947 in a remote village near Lake Urmia, in Northern Kurdistan. The gold objects are of mixed style combining elements from Scythian, Urartian, and Assyrian art.

Cf. no. 430 in 7000 Years of Iranian Art, Smithsonian Institution, (exhibition catalogue), Washington D.C., 1964; and no. 281 in Zimmermann, Ancient Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, New York, 1990