2000.283: Head of a Toggle Pin: Calf Protome
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.283
- Title
- Head of a Toggle Pin: Calf Protome
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Stylized Animal Pendant with Loop (?) on end - Given for experimental purposes
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 7th-6th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran)
- Culture
- Iranian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182299
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
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12.13 g
1.17 x 5.1 cm (7/16 x 2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Dr. Jerome Eisenberg, 2000.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Jerome M. Eisenberg
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.283
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Zoomorphic head of a bronze toggle pin with missing pinshaft. Pin head is decorated with the head and stylized body of a calf, with snub snout, bulbous eyes, and flatly rendered looped ears. The front and back haunches of the calf appear as thick ridges, with narrow extensions from each to the underside of the animal meant to represent legs. The haunches are separated by ring moldings, which continue, then, behind the calf's hind quarters. A loop projects from the molding just before the point where the pin head has been broken from its now missing shaft.
Verification Level
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