Bronze belt plaque with attached fragment of leather belt

1920s, found by Hans Jürgen von Oertzen in the Russian northwestern Caucasus; collection of Hans Jürgen von Oertzen, southern Germany; by descent, collection of Andrea Ulrich-von Oertzen, southern Germany; by 1996, on consignment at the Stuttgarter Kunst-Auktionshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel; [offered for sale at the Stuttgarter Kunst-Auktionshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel, on November 15, 1996, lot 262]; purchased from the Stuttgarter Kunst-Auktionshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel by Jacqueline Simcox, London; acquired by the Museum in 1999, gift of Jacqueline Simcox, London.

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 129 (Jul. 1,1998 - Jun. 30, 1999), p. 9.

Harper, Prudence O. 2001, "A Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eight to Tenth Century: Introduction." Metropolitan Museum Journal 36, pp. 83-84.

Kajitani, Nobuko. 2001. "A Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eight to Tenth Century: A Conservator's Report." Metropolitan Museum Journal 36, p. 85, fig. 18.

Knauer, Elfriede R. 2001. "A Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eight to Tenth Century: A Genealogical Study." Metropolitan Museum Journal 36, p. 127.

Khensellek, B. [Hensellek, Betty], 2020. “O proikhozhdenii alanskikh materialov v kollektsii Metropoliten-muzeia" [On the Provenance of the Alanic Materials in the Metropolitan Museum of Art]. In Drevnie i srednevekovye kul'tury Tsentral'noi Azii, edited by V. Nikonorov et al. Saint Petersburg: Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, p. 293.