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Dish: King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions
Dish: King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions
400-600
Silver gilt
Overall: 4.6 x 20.8 cm (1 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1962.150
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Lion hunting was a traditional royal sport in many Near Eastern cultures; in art it was sometimes symbolic of a historic conquest. Here, details of the king's and the horse's equipment are in the style of the 5th-century Hormizd III. The crown, however, resembles that of Hormizd II (AD 303-309), so this plate may be commemorative.
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