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Hero and Animal Combat Beaker
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About this work
On this silver beaker, two registers show men grabbing felines by the paws and stabbing rearing beasts amid stylized trees. The bearded men wear long robes and scarves, carefully created using repoussé. A large guilloche pattern (interlacing curved lines) containing a smaller guilloche pattern and punctuated by round bosses fills the space between the registers. This beaker may show a Master of Animals or a hero in combat, popular motifs in the ancient Near East.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHero and Animal Combat Beaker, 900–700 BCE. Iran, Luristan. Silver, repoussé, engraved; diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); overall: 10.1 cm (4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of K. Rabenou, 1963.95
