A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience so great skill and technical

so great skill and technical knowledge is required for its processing

cf: Andrews

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A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience so great skill and technicalThis openwork pin, cast from the lost wax process, depicts a master of animals figure wearing a headdress and ribbed collar with arms raised, flanked by two inverted lions, framed in a crescent emerging from a lion mask at the base of the figure and terminating in a pair of caprid heads with ribbed collars. Pins of this form were the most popular votive pins in Luristan. The diety shown on them all in the role of "master mistress of animals" was of