About the Artwork
Goat Pendant
1000/750 BC
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Iranian
Luristan
Cast bronze
1 7/16 x 1 5/16 x 1/2 in. (3.66 x 3.33 x 1.27 cm)
Metalwork
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shenefield
69.82
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P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pp. 232, 233, similar pendants discussed and dated, p. 230 mentions such pendants used either as personal adornment, decorating belts (especially true of North-West Iran), or as jingles on horse harnesses, pl. 65, figs 420-426.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Luristan, Iranian, Goat Pendant, 1000/750 BC, Cast bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shenefield, 69.82.
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