About the Artwork
Mace-Head Decorated with Lions and Lizards
2500 - 2100 BCE
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Iranian
Luristan
Bronze
Overall: 8 3/8 × 2 1/8 inches (21.3 × 5.4 cm)
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Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the J. M. Pincus Foundation
70.717
Public Domain
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Provenance
J.P. Barbier.(Etienne Ader);
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, pp. 95, 96 [similar cudgels discussed and dated, motifs found on these weapons seem to be Elamite in origin] p. 94, (fig. 20) pl. 10, (fig. 97), (ill.).
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Luristan, Iranian, Mace-Head Decorated with Lions and Lizards, 2500 - 2100 BCE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the J. M. Pincus Foundation, 70.717.
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