Gold ornament showing an eagle with its prey, c. 1st- or 2nd-century CE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
It is one of a pair, with the other on display in the British Museum, London. Ernst Herzfeld proposed that it was part of a treasure found in 1910-11 in a chamber tomb near Nihavend, Iran, possibly belonging to an aristocratic Parthian family. Another related piece of jewelry, found at Dalverzin Tepe in Uzbekistan, can be dated to the 1st century CE.
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