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Openwork appliqué in the form of a roaring lion's head

2002-379
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Information

Object Number
2002-379
Medium
Gold
Dates

late 5th–4th century B.C.

Dimensions
5.7 x 4.9 cm, wt. 8.7g (2 1/4 x 1 15/16 in., 8.7g)
Culture
Persian
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Place Made

Ecbatana (modern day Hamadan) ?, Iran

Type
metalwork, onlays
Subject
openwork, lions
Materials
gold

With a private New York collection since 1950s; purchased by the Museum in 2002.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774824

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 149

3022 2003
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244653279

Judith Price, <em>Masterpieces of ancient jewelry: exquisite objects from the cradle of civilization,</em> (Philadelphia, PA: Running, 2008)., p. 69-70 (illus.).

2161 2008
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865020505

<em>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 222

1994 2013

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