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Title:Quiver plaque with animals and mythological scenes
Period:Iron Age III
Date:ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Geography:Iran, probably from Luristan
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:21 1/8 in. × 5 15/16 in. × 1 in. (53.6 × 15.1 × 2.6 cm)
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1941
Object Number:41.156
By 1940, collection of R. Rabenou; 1941, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope from Ayoub (?) Rabenou; acquired by the Museum in 1941, purchased from Arthur Upham Pope, New York.
“Exhibition of Six Thousand Years of Persian Art.” The American Institute of Iranian Art and Archaeology, New York, April 24, 1940–July 1, 1940.
“Small Sculptures in Bronze,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 6, 1950–January 31, 1951.
“’Animal Style’ Art from East to West,” Asia House Gallery, New York, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1970.
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department,” MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan, The Aiche Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
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Thomsen, Peter. 1941. "Ausgrabungen and Forschungsreisen." Archiv für Orientforschung 14, p. 227, fig. 5.
Pope, Arthur U. and Phyllis Ackerman. 1941. “Prehistoric Nature Worship in Western Iran.” The Illustrated London News (March 1, 1941), pp. 292-293, fig. 8.
Pope, Arthur U. 1945. Masterpieces of Persian Art. New York: Dryden Press, p. 16, pl. 15.
Kantor, Helene J. 1947. “The Shoulder Ornament of Near Eastern Lions.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 6, pp. 258-259.
Dussaud, René. 1949. “Anciens Bronzes du Louristan et Cultes Iraniens.” Syria 26, p. 213, no. 8, fig. 11.
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