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Title: Top for standard
Period: Iron Age III
Date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Geography: Iran, probably from Luristan
Culture: Iran
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 4 9/16 × 2 3/16 × 11/16 in. (11.6 × 5.6 × 1.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1949
Object Number: 49.78.1
“The Arts of Old Persia.” Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1951–1952.
“Near Eastern Art,” The American Federation of Arts, New York, January 1, 1961–January 1, 1962.
“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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