LURISTAN BRONZE WHETSTONE SOCKET

LURISTAN BRONZE WHETSTONE SOCKET

Handle in form of forepart of a recumbent moufflon with two large circular horns from forehead with pointed ears till the back of long neck; its forelegs in low relief on front of socket, pierced at the end for fastening.

Ex coll. Galerie Arabesk, Stuttgart, Germany end 1980s, hence  priv. coll. M.v.S., Netherlands.
H. 13,9 cm. Dark green patina. Mounted

8th – 7th cent. BC

Cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, p. 99, pl. 11, no. 104