1.3.02026-04-05pinRådata3500514objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3500514BEK 1957.14bCast in one piece. Terminates in a plaque decorated with lion masks. Decor: ears, eyes, brows, nose, whiskers, and jowls, are modelled in low relief and quite stylised. The lower part of the face is exceptionally wide. The plain shank has four encircling ridges on its upper section just below the head.BEK 1957.14b, The Georg von Békésy Collection, Zoomorphically terminated pins are quite specific for Persia from the second millennium onwards. The lion head mask is the most typical Luristan type of all produced during the ninth to seventh centuries BC (Moorey). It appears on bracelets and axes and in pin form has been found stuck through an anthropomorphic tube mounted on a bottle shaped base (Godard). These straight pins were, however, more commonly used in pairs at the shoulders of garments (Porada)., L. 17.5 cm., Exhibition : från kilskrift till ryttarfolk 1996, Exhibition 1999, Cf/excavation: Vanden Berghe 1968c Pusht-i Kuh II Brussels figs. 11,12; Schmidt et alii 1989, pl. 162n Sor 1396 Ø: 4 x 6 cm, ch. 27C4.4. p. 263, Surkh Dum-i-Luri sanctuary, bracelets, twisted hoops also from Chiga Sabz, suggests entire Iron Age tradition; Cf/collection: Moorey 1971: 148-149, 194, 171, 346; nos. 319, 329, 322; Porada 1965 fig. 60; Godard 1931 pl. LIV, 195, 196., Främre Orienten, Kilskrift och ryttarfolk, Iran, Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:02., Nål av brons, Georg von Békésy samlingFörvärvadBékésy, Georg vonBrukadLuristan Iron II-IIIFunnenAsien, Iran, Luristan, LorestanÄgdNobelstiftelsenimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3602927/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3602928/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byKaneberg, OveStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3913133http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953894http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953666http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953899http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1040906http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3500514http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3500514http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3500514