A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience The upright figures of the

The upright figures of the two brothers are shown in the top panel

west of the Pollock Hills

The integrated pillar at the back has a suspension loop for attachment

Note: From the Israeli Museum: “small head pendants

the scarab with beautifully carved head

A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Medium - Faience The upright figures of theThis 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