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Asian Art
Explore image in Beaker
10th–9th century B.C.E.
Bronze, conventional lion mask on foot
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1952.52.43
Geography:
Probably Luristan (Lorestan), Iran
Culture:
Iranian/Persian, probably Luristan
Period:
Iron Age
Classification:
Containers - Metals
Provenance:
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1952; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 284, vol. 1; vol. 4, pl. 70A.
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