拍品專文
'Piravend figurines' originate from a region of North-West Iran, around present-day Taq-e Bostan. They present a distinctive regional style and tend to represent free-standing human and semi-human figures, often with short limbs and horned headdresses or masks, possibly indicating their divine nature, cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pp. 168-170. In this unusual group a male figure, wearing a kilt and separately-made broad belt, appears to wrestle a smaller semi-human figure with horns to which he is tied with silver coils.