A bronze round and openwork pinhead. It is decorated with an iconographic morality that may have been borrowed from the famous Gilgamesh epic and can later also be found in the biblical story of Daniel in the lions' den: a human figure in the middle holds two ibexes on either side of him - with the heads down - in control. Known from the Surkh Dinn Shrine., Ornament, metal, bronze, L cm, D cm, Iron Age III 800-700 BC, Iran
A bronze round and openwork pinhead. It is decorated with an iconographic morality that may have been borrowed from the famous Gilgamesh epic and can later also be found in the biblical story of Daniel in the lions' den: a human figure in the middle holds two ibexes on either side of him - with the heads down - in control. Known from the Surkh Dinn Shrine., Ornament, metal, bronze, L cm, D cm, Iron Age III 800-700 BC, Iran
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