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Sotheby Parke Bernet
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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The NetherlandsArt Gallery of New South Wales
The iconography occurs on many pins but it is not limited to them
A Western Asiatic Gold Pendant, ca. early 1st millennium BCE Sculpture - Varia Sotheby Parke BernetOf high karat gold, the sheet disk embossed with three reclining mouflon, centered by a hemispherical knob, the knob outlined in pinched dots, the disk surmounted by a suspension loop. This gold pendant attests to the exceptional skill of Achaemenid goldsmiths. Greek writers often speak of the tremendous wealth of the Persians, and Herodotus writes that King Xerxes' troops "were adorned with the greatest magnificence they glittered all over with gold,
