A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience 2009 Desert Mob 2009

2009 Desert Mob 2009

The integrated pillar at the back has a suspension loop for attachment

cf: Andrews

small loss to the lower reattached back fin but otherwise intact

2007 December Stocking

A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience 2009 Desert Mob 2009This openwork pin, cast from the lost wax process, depicts a master of animals figure wearing a headdress and ribbed collar with arms raised, flanked by two inverted lions, framed in a crescent emerging from a lion mask at the base of the figure and terminating in a pair of caprid heads with ribbed collars. Pins of this form were the most popular votive pins in Luristan. The diety shown on them all in the role of "master mistress of animals" was of