Bronze bowl with ibexes, Luristan, 900-700 BC
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This rare bronze bowl is adorned with an exquisitely detailed scene picturing two ibexes fighting, framed with concentric circles and a perfectly regular ribbing (symbolizing the rays of the sun). Luristan, 900-700 BC. |
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