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| Bronze shield boss (1000-800 BCE) from Amlash, Iran at University of Missouri Museum of Art & Archaeology. Columbia, MO. | Iranian bronze horse bit in form of winged sphinxes (1100-700 BCE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Iranian bronze animal finials (1100-700 BCE & 799-700 BCE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Iran: man with two winged horses of cheek plate from horse bit from Luristan (1000-650 BCE) at LACMA. Los Angeles, CA. |
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| Iran: winged horses of cheek plate from horse bit from Luristan (1000-650 BCE) at LACMA. Los Angeles, CA. | Bronze cheekpiece of horse bridle in form of mythical creature (1000-650 BCE) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Bronze cheekpiece of horse bridle in form of sphinx (1000-650 BCE) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Gold breastplate fragment (c8th-7thC BCE) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. |
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| Silver long-spouted jar (900-600 BCE) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Persian silver & gold spouted jar with lion-griffon handles (350-325 BCE) at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. | Persian gold head of snarling lion (6th-5thC BCE) probably from Ecbatana, Persia at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Egyptian silver vessel handle in shape of bounding ibex in Persian style (late 5thC BCE) probably from Tell el-Maskhuta, Egypt at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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| Persian winged bezoar goat handle for a silver amphora (400-350 BCE) from Euphrates, Anatolia at Altes Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Silver medallions (4th-2ndC BCE) from Greece & Iran at Antikensammlungen. Munich, Germany. | Silver & gold Parthian wine horns with lynx heads (1stC BCE - 1stC CE) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Parthian wine horn with lion head (1stC BCE - 1stC CE) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. |
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| Gilt-silver animal-shaped horn from Sasanian period of Persia or Afghanistan (300-400) in Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Sasanian wine horn with gazelle head (4thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Sasanian bottles with Dionysus scene (6-7thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Gilt-silver plate showing horseman hunting boars from Sasanian period of Persia (300-400) in Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. |
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| Silver & gold Sasanian bowl (3rd C) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Sasanian plate with horseman hunting boars (4thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Sasanian plate with horseman hunting wild goats (4-5thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Silver & gold Sasanian plate with Dionysus scene (5-7thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. |
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| Silver & gold Sasanian plate with winged horses (7thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Partially gilded silver platter with scene of Sasanian king on horseback hunting lion, boar & bear (7thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Partially gilded silver vase with cranes between palm fronds (7th-8thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Partially gilded silver plate with griffin (7th-8thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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| Partially gilded silver earrings in form of quail (7thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Cast bronze water can on three leg (8thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Bronze Incense burner in shape of bird (8thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Bronze Incense device in shape of camel (11th-12thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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| Copper alloy incense burner in shape of bird (12-13thC) from Iran at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Gold Buyid ewer (10thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, DC. | Persian brass candlestick with lions (late 12thC) at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Detail of Persian brass candlestick with lions (late 12thC) at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. |
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| Bronze, silver & enamel Persian shield (c1760) at Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX. | Astrolabe & metal tympana plates (mid 18thC) from Iran at Chester Beatty Library. Dublin, Ireland. | Silver & gold coffee & tea service given by Shah of Iran at Eisenhower Museum. Abilene, KS. |
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