Lion Hunting Cup
-1100–-1000
- Medium
- silver, raised, chased, repoussé
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Amlash
About
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.