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Plate with a king hunting rams
- Material
- Silver, mercury gilding, niello inlay
- Dimensions
- H. 1 7/8 in. (4.6 cm), Diam. 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm)
- Date as given by the source
- ca. mid-5th-mid-6th century CE
- Record number
- 34.33
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Object · ca. mid-5th-mid-6th century CE
Plate with a king hunting rams
A gilded Sasanian silver plate that the museum dates to about the mid-5th to mid-6th century CE. The king's identity is uncertain, and the findspot is known only from what was "said" at the time of acquisition.
- Region
- Iran (Persia)
- Material
- Silver, mercury gilding, niello inlay
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York