Lion Hunting Cup (1100–1000 BCE): Art, History and Details

Lion Hunting Cup (1100–1000 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The nomadic gold- and silversmiths of Marlik and Amlash were the first masters of precious metalwork in Iran. Their successors were the bronze workers of Luristan and the silversmiths of the Achaemenian and Sasanian empires.

Object facts

• Title: Lion Hunting Cup
• Date: 1100–1000 BCE
• Culture: Iran, Amlash
• Type: Metalwork
• Technique: silver, raised, chased, repoussé
• Dimensions: Overall: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
• Collection: Near Eastern Art
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1965.25

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Shepherd, D.G. "Four Early Silver Objects from Iran." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53.2 (February 1966): 38-50.
• Ghirshman, Roman. Persia: From the Origins to Alexander the Great. [London]: Thames and Hudson, 1964.
• Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France), and Roman Ghirshman. Sept Mille Ans D'art En Iran: [Exposition] Petit Palais, Octobre 1961 - Janvier 1962. [Paris]: Petit Palais, 1961.

View the collection record

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