Two Urartian Votive Plaques

Culture: Urartian

Period: ca. 800 B.C.

Material: Bronze

Dimensions: 11.1 cm and 11.4 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 6100

Provenance: French private collection 1990s. Then Galerie Antiken-Kabinett Gackstätter with the inventory number 04148. With certificate of Galerie Antiken-Kabinett Gackstätter.

Condition: Both figures intact.

Description: Two votive figures in human form with bird heads cut out from bronze sheet. The shape of the bodies, which form a pair facing each other, are marked by dotted lines. Both figures wearing a belt, the clothes and the background are decorated with wavy lines. The perforations make it clear that the sheets were once probably sewed on clothes.