“Standard” with horned hero taming goats. Bronze. Iran, Iron Age (15th – 16th century BC). © 2010 Musée du Louvre / Michel Urtado. Acquisition 1931, collection A. Godard. Département des Antiquités orientales. AO 14020.
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The shape looks like this:
Amulet in the form of a head of an elephant. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Period: Predynastic, Naqada II
Date: ca. 3500–3300 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Serpentine Bone
Dimensions: h. 3.5 × w. 3.6 × d. 2.1 cm (1 3/8 × 1 7/16 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1959
Accession Number: 59.101.1
