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dpdlbina"hd? nZtZNb"M!S' !?C Sh0WS its
mcllo silvcrwork which is drawn out for them bv draw' ^ ?rcck “faction which is
their clients. It is possible thaT weapons made in sadZ f 'T *1 °f'thc ™d<*'i -1 a
Luristan had a reputation, like Damascene swords wi.fged hon wTthbuU^hcaSZ * ,^in8cd.,bul1 (°r
m a later age. But it seems to me simpler to assume monster is clcnrlv of Noir r ? *C Ing.a,1^cx; t,lc
loot or presents, and were made in Mesopotamia. .n T, . " , ^ ‘ 7’ 8 c 8t
p. 20S 29. Gazette des Beaux Arts, 6mc scrie (.933), 33. lishccl the dTggcThilt in CrZf'<>ZrJ." p. 213
30. The triangular design along the flank of the (*938), 3<5 A*. It is type 45 in Rachel Maxwell-
sphinxes (Contenau, Manuel, 2171, figure 1207) Hyslop’s classification (Iraq, vm (1946), 51) where
recurs on the pectoral from the hoard of Zawiych. further references arc given.
3T. Godard, in Artibus Asiac, xiv (1951), 241 ff., 4»- R- Ghirshman, Lcs Fouilles dc Sialk, ir (Paris,
referring to the girdles depicted in Artibus Asiac, J939).
xm (1950), figures iS, 19, and 20.
42. This is the revised version, from American p. 2!1
32. Syria, xxvj (1949), 198 fl., figures 1-7, Journal of Archaeology (1946), 25, of the translation
plates ix—x; Illustrated London News, 6 May 1939, by R. G. Kent, Journal of the American Oriental
790-5. Society, liii (1933).
33. Kantor, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, v, 43. Erdmann, ‘ Gricchischc und Achacmcnidischc P- 215
23S, points out that the concavity of the wings of Plastik*, in Forschungen und Fortschrittc, xxvi (1950),
the bulls 011 pins which she publishes suggests a points out that the inscription must be dated
1 among the Luristan bronzes proper which shows Ac father of Darius, whom he mentions, died. And
date in the sixth century b.c. But the one piece between 494 and 490 b.c. For in 490 b.c. Hystaspes,
affinities with Achaemenian art (Godard, Bronzes du Ac Carians and Ionians settled in Babylon, who
Luristan, plate xlvi, no. 177) is quite isolated and it brought the cedars from there to Susa were prob-
sccms, therefore, that the manufacture did not Aly those deported after the fall of Miletus in 494
survive to any extent into Achaemenian times.
44. This was the view of Hcrzfcld who exag­
34. E. H. Minns, The Art of the Northern Nomads B.C.
gerated the influence of Urartian art out of all pro­
10.
portion of what we know of it; it was taken up by
p. 210 35. Since the heads of these pins arc large and Ghirshman, see next note.
heavy, there arc one or two loops on the stem for a
45. R. Ghirshman, ‘Masjid-i-Solaiman, resi­
safety fastening of the pin to the dress.
dence dcs premiers Achcmcnidcs*, in Syria, xxvn
p. 211 36. We know that this was their purpose from (1950), 205-20.
properly excavated burials in the Kuban valley,
46. Recently excavated: See E. Hcrzfcld, in p.216
north of Ac Caucasus.
Archacologische Mittciluugcn aus Iran, 1 (192S), 4-1^*
37. Tins particular type of stylizing the hafting 47. Hcrzfcld, op. cit., 12. p. 217
should not be confused with the numerous decora­ 48. Hcrzfcld, Iran and the Ancient East, plate
tions of sword and dagger-hilts with complete lions
xxxix, and below p. 222.
or lion heads, found throughout the Near East, at
49. Erich F. Schmidt, Perscpolis, 1 (Chicago, p. 21S
least from Early Dynastic times onward. This is a
specific type, ‘tetc dc lion crachant lc fcr\ and it is J953)- . j
P that this was invented in the second millen- 50. The additions of Artaxerxes III, towards the
true
mum. before zoomorphic juncture became popular end of the fifth century, can be rc8ar .
in Luristan. There is an example from Ras Shamra 51. Sclunidt, op. at., 64 postulates a g
f Schaeffer, Uoaritica, 1 (Paris, 1939). 107-25) anti at the S.E. corner.
another from Susa (Dc Mecqucncm, Jacques dc J2_ t prcfcr this designation winch d°«P
Memoircs dc la Delegation cn Perse, vii, 61 : dgc t]lc purpose of the budding, to tha
Morgan, - - cil Hall, proposed by Dr Schmidt (op. at ,107)^
of the reliefs showing procestmns of nobte
! Ludwig Curtius, Munchcner Jahrbuch (19u). cause
38 on the stairway (plates I7Sb, - Rishkc'y d
■a place of assembly of the nobles bcfo cthtU.g_
19.
c . instance the rich example of zoomorphic would, at the same time, be a mam link
p. 212
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