Artist Luristan, Iranian
Title
  • Belt Clasp
Date 900 - 750 BCE
Medium bronze
Dimensions Overall: 5 3/4 × 5 1/8 × 3/4 inches (14.6 × 13 × 1.9 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Ancient Art General Fund, with funds from Dr. Gennaro J. DiMaso
Accession Number 71.28
Department Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View Ancient Middle East Gallery, Level 1 (see map)
(Ahmed Biabani);
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, pp. 239, 240, [similar object discussed and dated], pl. 69, 458.