Antelope pendant

1946, purchased by Joseph Brummer from Mrs. Tuba Lalezari (Brummer inv. no. N6639); acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from the estate of Joseph Brummer, New York.

“Art of the Ancient Near East.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 4, 1949–September 5, 1949.

“Art Treasures of the Metropolitan: A Selection from the European and Asiatic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 7, 1952–September 7, 1953.

“Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 14, 1970–June 1, 1971.

“Ancient Persia: the Art of an Empire.” The University Museum, Austin, Texas, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, February 12, 1978–June 17, 1978.

“The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 17, 1992–March 7, 1993.

"Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 8–August 17, 2003.

"Epic Iran." The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 29, 2021–September 12, 2021.

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Culican, William. 1965. The Medes and the Persians. New York: Praeger, pl. 73.

Crawford, Vaughn E., Prudence Oliver Harper, Oscar White Muscarella, and Beatrice Bodenstein. 1966. Ancient Near Eastern Art: Guide to the Collections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 32, fig. 50.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries, exh. cat. New York: Dutton, no. 60, p. 113.

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. 1978. Ancient Persia: the Art of an Empire, exh. cat. Austin, Texas: The University Art Museum, p. 110, no. 145.

Harper, Prudence O. et al. 1983. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department, exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun, fig. 4.

Harper, Prudence O. et al. 1984. "Ancient Near Eastern Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 41 (4), Spring 1984, p. 44, fig. 61.

Harper, Prudence O., Joan Aruz, and Françoise Tallon. 1992. The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre, exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. 29.

Aruz, J. 2002. "Power and Protection: A Little Proto-Elamite Silver Bull Pendant." In E. Ehrenberg (ed.), Leaving No Stones Unturned. Essays on the Ancient Near East and Egypt in Honor of Donald P. Hansen. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, p. 5, fig. 7.

Dunn-Vaturi, Anne and Martina Rugiadi. 2023. "The Brummer Gallery and the Making of Iranian and Islamic Arts." In The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde, edited by Christine Brennan, Christel Hollevoet-Force, and Yaëlle Biro. Boston: Brill, pp. 417 and 420, n. 19 and 26, Table 10.1, no. 44.