Ca. 1000-800 BC A Luristan Bronze clothing pin with rectangular section tapering towards the end; stylised with ram's head finial with long curled horns. For similar see: P. R. S. Mooney, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971, pgs 172-215. Size: L:313mm / W:31mm ; 70g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old London collection formed in the 1990s.