A Western Asiatic Gold Pendant, ca. early 1st millennium BCE vests looped tail is no longer

looped tail is no longer present

Condition:  Lovely form with heavy patination

(1986) Routledge & Kegan Paul

Carved from brilliant blue lapis lazuli

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A Western Asiatic Gold Pendant, ca. early 1st millennium BCE vests looped tail is no longerOf high karat gold, the sheet disk embossed with three reclining rams, 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,