Elegant bronze statuette of a panther attacking a
stag; the stag rears on hindlegs leaving throat
exposed to panther who’s jaws and front paws
are locked around the stag’s neck; moulded and
tooled
naturalistic detailing.
An attempt at naturalism can be seen in the
musculature of either animal and the moulded
detailing.
Elam was an ancient kingdom of Central Asia that
corresponded approximately to the modern day
province of Khuzistan in Iran. The capital of Elam
and its most fabled city was Susa, today the city
of
Shush.
Elamite states, while somewhat
overshadowed in history by the rival kingdoms of
Babylon and Assyria, were among the most
powerful
political forces of the ancient Near East. Founded
in
3200 BC and lasted – in various guises – almost
continuously until the mid 1st millennium BC
when
succeeded by the Persian Achaemenid dynasty.
This piece heralds from the Neo-Elamite period,
c.
1100- 539 BC and is characterized by both
Assyrian and Median influence.
- (LO.1334)
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