Illustration
One of a pair of decorative silver phalerae (horse’s harness plagues) discovered in a grave during Russian excavations, depicting a turreted war elephant wearing a saddle cloth decorated with a hippocampus (Eastern Iran, ca. 3rd-2nd cent. BCE; SHM inv. no. S-65).
Image is used from www.hermitagemusum.org; courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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References
- Michael Pfrommer. Metalwork from the Hellenized East: Catalogue of the Collections. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993, 10, fig. 4.
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Museum, S. H. (2019, May 31). Turreted War Elephant, Hermitage Museum. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10821/turreted-war-elephant-hermitage-museum/
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