Description:

**Originally Listed At $600**

Ancient Near East, Eastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey / Armenia), Urartu culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. A broad belt panel fragment hammered from a sheet of bronze that is adorned with dozens of petite, left-facing anthropomorphic and zoomorphic creatures. The foot soldiers are adorned with spears or swords, standards, and conical helmets, and several chariots have drivers as well as bow-wielding archers standing behind them in their carts. Several right-facing animals, perhaps stags, are shown running across the crowded scene. The upper and lower peripheries bear several perforations meant to suspension petite danglers. Size: 8.875" L x 5.9" W (22.5 cm x 15 cm)

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 52.123

Provenance: private J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA

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#150027

  • Condition: This is a fragment of a larger belt panel with losses to several peripheral areas and a few interior areas as shown. Bending to overall form, with light encrustations, softening to some incised figural details, and damage to some attachment perforations along upper and lower edges. Good preservation to most incised figures, and nice patina throughout.

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