Luristan bronze girdle clasp

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£140.00

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A bronze girdle clasp created from a single folded length of metal hammered into two broad plates. These plates are decorated with repousse bosses and dots and extend into serpent’s head terminals.

Culture
Luristan, c. 1000 – 750 BC

Size
11.2 x 6.4 cms

Condition
Losses along one edge otherwise intact

Provenance
Formerly in the Kuizenga collection, The Netherlands; collection formed from the 1970’s onwards.

Another clasp of identical type is discussed in PRS Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persion Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford 1971), catalogue item 458.

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