Throne leg in the shape of a griffin.
Iran, Umayyad period (661-750), late 7th-early 8th c. CE
Bronze, cast around a ceramic core and chased.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1971.143)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
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Ivory.
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 37
Neo-Assyrian period, Syrian style, 9th-8th c. BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (61.197.11)
Rogers Fund, 1961
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Copper alloy
European Bronze Age, 11th c. BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007.498.1a,b)
Gift of Josef and Brigitte Hatzenbuehler, 2007
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Copper alloy inlaid with silver and niello.
Roman, Gaul? 2nd-3rd c. CE
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (47.100.18)
Fletcher Fund, 1947
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