A pair of Urartian protective arm-guards, 8th century Characteristically shaped, slightly bent, thick sheet bronze plates to protect the lower arm. The richly decorated borders have seven holes. Height 16 cm. Width 8 to cm. Dark and blue-green to red patina as discovered with dirt encrustations. Two ancient repairs. Axel Guttmann Collection (R 127/AG 503). Published in: H. Born/U. Seidl, Schutzwaffen aus Assyrien und Urartu - Sammlung Axel Guttmann, vol. 4, Mainz 1995, pp. 88 f. Fig. 78, 79, 179, plate IV. Perfectly preserved arm-guards for an Urartic ,
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