Stag figure
Unknown Artist
ca. early 1st millennium BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
4 3/16 × 1 7/8 × 3 1/8 in. (10.6 × 4.8 × 7.9 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Sculpture
Culture & Period
Iran · Iron Age II
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Khalil Rabenou, 1959
Accession Number
59.28
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite bronze stag figure, crafted by an unknown artist around the early 1st BCE, captures the graceful form of a deer in miniature—measuring just 4 3/16 × 1 7/8 × 3 1/8 inches. H in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art this Iron Age II artifact from Iran exemplifies the region's masterful metalwork traditions. Donated as a gift from Mrs. Khalil Raben in 1959, it invites us to marvel at the technical prowess of ancient artisans who cast such lifelike creatures from enduring bronze. During Iran's Iron Age II (roughly 1000–800 BCE), bronze sculpture fl...