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Applique in the shape of a wolf head worked in repousse (Main View, front)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Raised from a single sheet of gold. Head of a wolf with wrinkled nose and ears laid back. Small rivet holes on the neck and two larger ones in the mouth.
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Details
- Title: Applique in the shape of a wolf head worked in repousse (Main View, front)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 100 B.C.–A.D. 50
- Location Created: Eastern Hellenistic Empire
- Physical Dimensions: 4.1 × 10.5 × 2.5 cm (1 5/8 × 4 1/8 × 1 in.)
- Type: Applique
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Gold
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 82.AM.105
- Culture: Bactrian
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Implements (Object Genre)
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