Subject: warrior
Culture: Luristani
Setting: western Iran ~1200-600BC
Object: jewelry
* Allard Pierson Museum > Nabije Oosten
"Halsband, armband en enkelband (necklace, bracelet and anklet). Vroeg 1e millennium v. Chr. ?" ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World > Ancient Near East
"Bracelet with two ibex foreparts
Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." ...
"Torque (neck ring)
Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World > Ancient Near East
"Pin with a hollow-work head in the form of a demigod grasping two lions Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." ...
"Bronze standard in the form of two felines with smaller felines on their backs Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." ...
Unique to Luristan, finials or 'standards' such as these may have been used as protective objects for religious rituals or in the home, although -- because none has ever been found in an undisturbed archaeological context -- the true function is not known." ...
"Bronze harness ring in the form of a mouflon over a bull and a lion Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World > Ancient Near East
"Pin with a terminal in the form of an animal Western Iran (Luristan), about 1200-600 B.C." Iron ...
By the early second millennium B.C., iron was a traded commodity, and iron daggers were owned by Hittite and Egyptian kings. At that time, iron was far more valued than gold. Not until the early first millennium, however, was iron commonly smelted and forged to create tools and weapons of much greater hardness than those made of bronze." ...
* Dallas Museum of Art > Connecting Cultures
"Double-headed ibex pin Iran: Luristan, c. 800-600 B.C. Bronze ...
Animal-motif ornaments like this ibex, or antelope, were used to pin large sections of clothing together."
* Allard Pierson Museum > Nabije Oosten
"Buikbeschermer (?) (abdomen protection?), Luristan, vroeg 1e millennium v. Chr." ...
"Armbanden: met spiralen, met slangenkoppen, scharnierende armband met maskers (bracelets: with spirals, snake heads and masks)
Luristan, voeg 1e millennium v. Chr." ...
