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Belt Buckle with Paired Felines Attacking Ibexes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Belt Buckle with Paired Felines Attacking Ibexes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008
Belt Buckle with Paired Felines Attacking Ibexes
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Mongolia or southern Siberia
Xiongnu period, 3rd-2nd century BC

Accession # 17.190.1672

Although symmetrical confronted animals suggest a Scythian background, this plaque is surely later and reflects an artistic environment much farther to the east.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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