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Mount for a Belt Buckle(?) with Ram's Heads (Main View, front)
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Mount for a belt buckle (?) with juxtaposed ram's heads with horns and beards. The animals' horns, eyes, jaws, and beards were originally inlaid with stones. Composed of a single sheet of raised gold.
Details
- Title: Mount for a Belt Buckle(?) with Ram's Heads (Main View, front)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 100 B.C.–A.D. 50
- Location Created: Central Asia
- Physical Dimensions: 5.2 × 4.9 × 2 cm (2 1/16 × 1 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
- Type: Buckle
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Gold and inlaid stones
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 82.AM.99.2
- Culture: Bactrian
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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