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Woman's belt buckle. Adiyaman / Turkey, ca. 1925. Private collection, Turkey.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on July 22, 2016 at 10:20pm

Bronze ‘toka’ (woman's belt buckle), featuring a lion's head. Probably Kurdish, from the Adiyaman region, ca. 1925. The lion's head is executed in late-Hellenistic style, reminding artifacts of the antique Kingdom of Commagene (163 BC - 72 AD). (Source: Akkaya Antik, Balikesir).

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