Details
AN URARTIAN BRONZE PECTORAL
CIRCA LATE 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
Of crescentic form, decorated in chased low relief with a central frieze centred by a stylised tree flanked by two standing winged deities, on either side another stylised tree flanked on either side by a standing winged bull, within a border of dots, zigzags and ridges, ribbed suspension hooks at the apexes
8 ¼ in. (20.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Private collection, Europe, acquired prior to 1985; and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
H.-J. Kellner, 'Kopfschmuck oder Brustschmuck? Bemerkungen zu neuen Funden aus Urartu', in Pro Arte Antiqua: Festschrift für Hedwig Kenner II, Vienna, 1985, pp. 226-227, pl. 13:1-3.
R. Merhav (ed.), Urartu: A Metalworking Center in the First Millenium B.C., The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1991, p. 169, fig. 7 (a replica of this lot is now in the collections of the Archäologische Staatssammlung, Munich).
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