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Talisman finial
Talisman finial

Talisman finial

Date8th-7th century B.C.
Object number65.124
ProvenancePurchased for Seattle Art Museum, August 11, 1965
Published ReferencesRogers, Millard B., Engagement Book: Iranian Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1972, fig. 6. Muscarella, Oscar White. "Unexcavated Objects and Ancient Near Eastern Art," in Buccellati, Giorgio, series ed.; Levine, Louis D. and T. Cuyler Young, Jr., volume eds. Bibliotheca Mesopotamia, Volume Seven, Mountains and Lowlands: Essays in the Archaeology of Greater Mesopotamia. Malibu: Undena Publications, 1977
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions10 x 5 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.
MediumBrass and bronze
Talisman
Luristani
ca. 1000 B.C.
Object number: 40.100
Finial
Luristani
Object number: 52.135
Pin with duck finial
Luristani
ca. 1000 B.C.
Object number: 40.103
Luristani (modern western Iran)
700-400 B.C.
Object number: 2007.98
Luristani (modern western Iran)
700-400 B.C.
Object number: 2007.99
Luristani (modern western Iran)
700-400 B.C.E.
Object number: 2007.100
Glass tile
Byzantine
9th-12th century
Object number: 69.27